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their minds which side to pass a fellow-being. A 
large piece of rock about three feet thick, and like 
a wheel in shape, and as big as our tent, was making 
a bee-line for our camp with fearful velocity down 
the steep mountain side. It had got on to its edge, 
and was rolling like a hoop. No wonder Savio found 
a difficulty in making up his mind whether to 
jump to the right or го the lett Close iby 8 
camp the travelling monster took a westerly course, 
and settled in a bed of snow some twenty feet 
away from us. 
As I remarked in 1895, after my first Antarctic 
journey, it must strike anyone with an eye for 
geological science how the nature of Victoria Land 
speaks of evolution. One need only look at the 
moraines, the empty glacier beds, and the worn 
rocks of Victoria Land, to see how greatly these 
lands must have changed during comparatively recent 
periods. 
On our way home we saw very many seals of the 
Weddelli kind. 
The seals we encountered іп the pack on the 
southward voyage were, as they have always been 
found in the Antarctic Regions, very few, all of them 
being hair seals. Besides the sea leopard) tie 
Weddelli was the best represented species. Then we 
found the characteristic white seal of the Antarctic in 
greater numbers than I found them in 1894-5, and 
Mr. Hanson made, at my special request, as good a 
study of this interesting species as time, specimens 
and opportunity allowed. As we proceeded south- 
wards the number of seals basking together increased 
considerably, and in the vicinity of Coulman Island 
