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shore, where they were surprised to find us. From 
the Southern Cross also, some three or four miles 
from the coast, they had witnessed the incident with 
SIR GEORGE NEWNES LAND IN SOUTHERN CROSS FJORD. 
great anxiety. As it was, both Capt. Jensen and 
myself escaped, only a good deal knocked about 
by the rocks, and of course wet to the skin, and 
not too warm, from the icy bath; but a splendid 
collection of rocks and vegetation soon made us 
forget the incident which might have ended so 
disastrously for us. I now decided to steam south- 
wards. Towards the south-east Mount Terror ran 
into the ocean in rather a gentle slope, which, 
curiously enough, was free from ice and snow. Неге 
a large penguin colony seemed to flourish. The 
cone of Mount Terror was covered in a mail of 
ice. No evidence of activity was noticed from this 
