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by the range-finder. Roasted penguin now formed 
a repast at all meals, and sometimes on Sundays 
we ate their hearts only, which, when properly 
roasted—for us, at least—seemed a delicacy. On 
the 31st I shot five skuagulls, all male birds. 
I placed oak water-tight casks, with short reports 
of our proceedings, both in the hollows of icebergs 
and on the floes. The following is a copy of the 
communication placed in these casks :— 
* CAPE ADARE, VICTORIA Lanp, November ist, 
1899.— This is placed in the cave of an iceberg, 
situated two English miles west of Cape Adare, 
ICE-FORMATION. 
the British Expedition under my command being 
successful in its object, but has lost one of its 
members, the zoologist Hanson, who died on the 
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