230 H. C. RUSSELL. 
continued to mend, and at our slow speed the risk was greatly 
reduced ; by two in the morning I was able to go ahead again full 
speed, no more ice being seen after this, The position of these 
last pieces were approximately Lat. 47° 30 8. and Long. 80° E. 
From the Crozets eastwards in Lat. 46° S. the icebergs seen by 
me on the last four or five voyages, are apparently breaking up 
fast, and are weather and water worn. They lose the table top 
shape and are either rounded off on the ends or have high pinnacles 
springing up from a broad base awash by the sea. The sea 
temperature almost invariably rises a few degrees five hundred 
miles east of the Crozets, and I have several times noted quite a 
well defined hot stream which the ship will steam over in five or 
six hours in this neighbourhood. At 2 p.m on the 22nd February 
the ‘sea temperature rose to 50° Fah., and continued at 49° for 
over seventy miles, this current undoubtedly sets the ice south 
which had been previously deposited by the antarctic stream into 
Lat. 44° and 45° S. and to the north of the Crozets. The sea is 
apparently not so deep to the north of Kerguelen, and I doubt 
very much if some of these large masses would have water enough 
to pass east unless they were north of Lat. 47° 8. 
February 21st, fine clear weather and fresh breeze prevailing, 
I steered for Hog Island, one of the Crozet Group, and sighted it 
at five in the morning, I steered within two miles of the island, 
and coasted along its northern and north-eastern shores. It was 
really a lovely sight, the beautiful autumn tints of green and 
yellow in the morning sunlight were similar to the views of the 
islands on the west coast of Scotland. Snow was lying on the 
top, probably about 2,000 feet above the sea. Albatrosses or molly- 
hawks were nesting all along amongst the grass on the lower parts 
of the island, while on other parts of the island penguins were sitt- 
ing in thousands. There were fewer seals and sea-elephants on the 
beaches, than what I have observed on former visits earlier in 
the year, but still great numbers were on the beaches and around 
the ship. The hut in which the stores are placed for shipwrecked 
sailors seemed intact, and groups of penguins were sitting fear- 
