190 British Antarctic Expedition. 
Hanson asked me that I might make his biography, 
if I was going to write such, as short and modest as 
possible. On the same day, about 3 o'clock in 
ICE-FORMATION. 
the afternoon, Mr. Hanson died without pain, and 
remained conscious to the very last. 
Half-an-hour before he died the first penguin came 
back. Enthusiastic as he had always been in his 
calling, he asked to see the bird, and on its being 
brought to him, he was delighted to examine it. 
The doctor's official report says that Hanson 
died from occlusion of the intestines. 
On the moth October a great many penguins 
had arrived ; some stood at their old nests, which 
they occasionally left to pick up pebbles, arranging 
them about their nests. 
On the 2oth October we buried Mr. Hanson.. 
