I9II] SEALS ON THE KOETTLITZ GLACIER an 
it took the form of a glacier ' delta.' Below the falls the 
ice descended to the east in a series of broad undulations, 
a portion of which we had traversed on the 23rd. Long 
promontories of ice fifty feet high extended from the 
unbroken glacier mass and probably represented the 
crests of the undulations. These degenerated at the ends 
into icebergs and monoliths of ice, and these again had 
weathered into the bastions and pinnacles. Lower down 
the thaw waters had etched these into still smaller units, 
and along the coast just below me the streams had formed 
a well-defined if narrow avenue of smooth ice, which 
promised us an easier return. 
On these slopes I found an ice-scratched block — -the 
only specimen I had seen in a hundred miles of moraine 
debris ! 
I returned to the tent along the margin of the glacier 
and was amazed to see seal tracks in the fresh snow. We 
were over twenty miles from the sea and had not seen any 
possible route for seals on our outward journey. Yet here 
were two seals — asleep as usual — on the old glacier ice. I 
disturbed one of them to see what it would do. He 
sneezed and grunted at me. When I teased him further 
he began to warble ! I heaved a lump of ice at him, where- 
upon he lolloped twenty yards to a wet patch, lay over on 
his side, and produced a whole octave of musical notes from 
his chest, ranging up to a canary-like chirrup. Finally 
he crawled under a deep ledge, and vigorously butting with 
his shoulders, opened out a hole and flopped under the 
avenue ice. 
I soon reached camp and found that Wright and 
