THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



some distance to the edge of the main glacier, where 

 they terminated in several well-marked nunataks. " One 

 which I visited, and which was the nearest to the large 

 parasitic cone, was eighty feet high, of massive kenyte 

 of brown colour and close texture, jointed into very 

 large cubical joints by a very complete series of master- 

 joints. From this nunatak I obtained nine kinds of 

 hchen, including four or five new species, and one piece 

 of moss. One of the lichens was so much larger than 

 the others and branched so much that it might well 

 be called a forest-lichen, and Murray considers it to be 

 very closely allied to the reindeer -moss, or ice-moss." 



Joyce was engaged at this time in making zoological 

 collections, and with the aid of the motor-car he was 

 able to cover a great deal of ground. The motor-car, 

 driven by Day, would take him fifteen or sixteen miles 

 over the sea-ice to some suitable locality, generally 

 near the Cathedral Rocks on the north side of Glacier 

 Tongue, and leave him there to kill seals and penguins. 

 In order to kill young seals, some specimens of which 

 were required, he had first to drive the mothers away, 

 and this often took a long time, as the female seal 

 becomes aggressive when interfered with in this manner. 

 The work was not at all pleasant, but Joyce killed and 

 prepared for preservation five young Weddell seals and 

 four adult specimens. He had taken lessons in taxi- 

 dermy before leaving England in order to be ready for 

 this duty. Joyce and Day also killed and skinned 

 twenty Emperor penguins, twelve Adelie penguins and 

 twelve skua gulls, and all the men at the winter quarters 

 assisted in collecting eggs. 



Murray was looking after the scientific work, paying 

 special attention to his own particular domain, that of 

 biology, and Marston was devoting as much time as he 

 could to sketching and painting. He had taken oils, 



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