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du Born ' would sink to pianissimo. Then we would shout 
our ' Braves ' and ' Encores ' and the northern Caruso 
would start off again and away Hew the skuas. So by 
degrees a steaming pot of ^ good stoof, that will stick to 
your ribs ' was brought to the tent by our hardy Norse 
mate. 
We found Gran's seakale sprouting in their rock garden. 
No less than twelve dicotyledons ! I'm sure they were 
the first grown under natural (or rather unnatural) 
conditions in 77° South. Unfortunately they only flour- 
ished a week, and even the native mosses did not get 
green that summer — which made mc sure it was a very 
cold January. 
On the loth there was an addition to our circle. Gran 
found two skua chicks in one nest and took one as a pet. 
He tried to feed it, with the result that it nearly died ; 
so he returned it. However, one of the pair of clucks is 
always killed in the first week or so. 
Gran and I went over to the Mackay Ice Tongue to 
determine accurately the movement of tlie latter in the 
past thirty days. We reached the stake without much 
trouble by prodding for the crevasses and then set about 
finding its progress to the east. Gran had my Goerz 
glasses, and lying full length on the snow he observed 
Debenham. The latter was stationed at the theodolite 
some two miles off at Cape Geology, and signalled to Gran 
with a flag as to which way I was to move. Finally I 
got just in a line with my transit of December 14. I 
measured the distance to the stake and it was 82 feet ! 
The glacier moves nearly a yard a day. Dcbcnham's 
