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Monday^ March 6. — We set to work on the coal and 
stores and carried everything up to the hut, stacking them 
on the weather side. 
We have now settled down into a regular routine ; we 
turn out at 7 a.m., have breakfast at 8 a.m., dinner at 
I P.M., and supper at 7 p.m. 
The weather is fairly fine, the temperature keeping 
between 18° and 20° F., but with a cold east wind. Loose 
pack sets into the bay with the flood and drifts out with 
the ebb tide. 
March 9.— We had a most magnificent surf breaking 
on the western shore over a fringe of grounded pack, 
throwing spray and bits of ice 30 or 40 feet into the air. 
On the nth and 12th we had our first blizzard with 
heavy drift, and the hut shook a little, but nothing gave 
way. The remaining penguins began gathering in parties 
on the sea shore, which looked as though they were 
going to leave us for the winter ; we had now 120 
penguins and 4 seals in the ice-house, which should 
be sufficient for the winter. All manner of bergs drift 
past our beach, and it is interesting to note the differ- 
ence in the buoyancy between the two types of berg 
— the glacier-formed iceberg and the barrier berg com- 
posed chiefly or wholly of neve. In one instance a glacier 
berg about 70 or 80 feet high grounded ofl' our beach in 
36 fathoms, and a few days after a barrier berg of similar 
height drifted past well inside the former. 
March 19. — A week of snow and drift, with very 
little sun. 
This morning about seven o'clock it came on to blow 
