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crying out ludicrously whenever one of us imitated its call. 
The little creature became quite exhausted, as we were 
steaming through lighter ice at the time and it had to swim 
steadily after us. The poor bird was unable to reach the 
ship, as the ' kick ' of the propeller swirled it away when- 
ever it caught us up. As often as this happened the 
penguin would struggle on to a floe and reel about like a 
drunken man, until finally it lay still, thoroughly defeated. 
We were completely beset with ice on January 6 
Jan. 6 and and 7, and the officers spent their time working 
4o'^s'^^'i66° for Lillie, obtaining plankton and water-bottle 
47' samples at many different depths. 
Lillie put out his twenty-four mesh net at 1000 metres, 
and obtained a lot of specimens, including a fine jelly-fish. 
On January 8, the ice opening up, we proceeded slowly 
on our way. We passed close alongside a low hummocky 
Jan 8 1913 ^^^berg which had three Emperor penguins on 
71° 41' s., it. They must have been there some weeks, as 
^^'^ ^ ' the surface of the berg was much soiled and the 
snow trodden about over a great area. The iceberg was 
too high for the birds to have regained had they once left 
it. Two of the Emperors were very thin ; the third, an 
enormous bird, was moulting and one could not make out 
what sort of condition he was in. 
Until January 14 progress was painfully slow, but on 
this day the ship worked through into looser ice. The 
pack was eventually cleared on January 16 in Lat. 74"" 50' S., 
Long. 177'' 15' E. 
The night of January 17-18 was very still and a belt 
of stratus cloud settled down, forming a thick fog ; the ship 
