70 British Antarctic Expedition. 
glittered like diamonds on the white bosom of the 
Antarctic Ocean. This was Balleny Island which 
we sighted. 
On the 16th January those seals which were shot 
during the last 
days seemed to 
have got far ad- 
vanced in the 
moulting, and 
they looked a 
good deal darker 
in their new 
coat. ThE 
moulting starts 
on the back in 
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SEAL HAUNTING. from nose to tail. 
A. seal which. T 
myself shot on the 13th had a stripe about five inches 
broad along the back where the old yellow-grey hair 
had gone, and the new steel-grey coat was visible. 
The moulting had progressed regularly on both sides 
of the spinal column and narrowed off towards head 
and tail. It is remarkable that in the stomachs of 
the white seals there has been no food of any kind 
found, nor in the intestines. 
The bird life was about the same. 
Some few whales were seen, mostly of the blue 
kind. 
We were still lying fast in heavy pack. It had 
been blowing very hard from the S.W. We were 
mien in lat, 65° 43. S and dong, 162° 6’ Е. The 
compass error 26°5 Е. 
