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expeditions on land and at sea, between vessel 
and sledges. These facts soon became evident to 
me as the season drew onwards. 
Up to the middle of November very little change 
CAMP RIDLEY. 
BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF CAMP RIDLEY. 
was to be seen in the general ice-pack, although 
some open canals were met with on a sledge journey 
which the Finn Must and myself carried on to the 
east of Cape Adare, principally for the purpose of 
studying the ice conditions. The canals closed 
again, however, and not until the end of November 
did noticeable changes take place in the general 
ice-pack. 
Although the penguin colony seemed to fill the 
very ground of the peninsula, new arrivals continued 
even after the penguins which arrived first had been 
sitting on their eggs for a fortnight. The penguin 
rookery at the peninsula of Camp Ridley at Cape 
Adare was the same as when I visited it in 1894. 
The penguins literally covered the ground; their 
