I9I2] SEALS FOUND 169 
October 23. — I was bad in the night and did not 
wake till 6.30. The day was warmer, but I feel very 
cold and rather weak and slack. The light was bad, 
but we made fair progress. Passed inside a number of 
stranded bergs evidently broken off from the piedmont. 
About 4 P.M. we saw a seal near a stranded berg and we 
camped early, in order to kill and cut him up. There 
were tracks of several more near the berg, so I think 
we are coming to the land of plenty. A brain and liver 
hoosh did us all good. We are all feeling slack and stale. 
Distance 6 miles. We had to reduce to two biscuits 
per day owing to slow progress. 
October 24. — A lovely morning, clear and calm with a 
few clouds over the mountains. While we were packing 
the sledges Browning went to the seal hole, but there 
were none up. The surface was heavy crusted snow 
with belts of pressure. During the day we passed a 
large number of stranded bergs and any amount of seals 
up round them, many of them with young. 
Our route lay along a piedmont, evidently aground, 
judging by the steep slopes and crevasses in places. Soon 
after 4 p.m. we opened out a wide bay which I made out 
to be Tripp Bay. After this the surface improved. 
After camping, Levick and Abbott killed and cut up 
a seal. 
There was a curious line of stranded bergs and pressure 
running parallel to the coast and about two miles off, 
which looks as if there might be a shoal there. Our 
distance to-day about 7 miles. 
October 25. — Both Dickason and I had a bad night, 
