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lessly alongside of it, thus showing that no human being was in 
the vicinity. I did not haul the ship out towards the Twelve 
Apostles’ Rocks because I was afraid of submerged dangers. [I 
examined the tower constructed by the survivors of the British 
ship “Strathmore,” and observed the oars still on it, but no signal 
to call any attention was visible by my telescope. I then steered 
for Possession Island and passed abeam of the perforated rock at 
12-25 p.m. Coasting along the northern shores, distant probably 
from one to two miles, we examined’ the hut containing stores in 
America Bay. The penguins here again, with an occasional seal 
were the only visitors. Snow covered the highlands, and lovely 
streams and waterfalls. were in sight in the ravines. I did not 
steam so far round as Ship Cove, where another hut with stores 
is placed, as it means the loss of nearly one hour, and on the north- 
east corner of the island a field of kelp stretches a good bit off the 
point, thus showing that there may be rocky prominences which 
it would be prudent to avoid. A course was set to pass two miles 
off East Island on its northern side; beyond birds and seals 
nothing else appeared to disturb the solitude. Large masses of 
ice were ashore in most of the bays in nearly all the islands and 
in the offing great numbers of bergs a like a continuation 
of the Twelve Apostle Rocks. 
We traversed over 1,500 knots, and if the weather had always 
been clear, we probably would never have been out of sight of ice 
in this long journey, we saw about three hundred bergs over fifty 
feet high altogether, and of course broken masses dangerous to 
shipping were around in all directions. 
