WINTER MONTHS 
the big fellow wlio escaped them." This penguin's stomach 
proved to be filled with freshly caught fish up to 10 in. long. 
Some of the fish were of a coastal or littoral variety. Two 
more emperors were captured on the following day, and, while 
Wordie was leading one of them towards the ship, Wild came 
along with ]iis team. The dogs, uncontrollable in a moment, 
made a frantic rush for the bird, and were almost upon him 
when their harness caught upon an ice-pylon, which they had 
tried to pass on both sides at once. The result was a seething 
tangle of dogs, traces, and men, and an overturned sledge, 
while the pengum, three yards away, nonchalantly and indif- 
ferently surveyed the disturbance. He had never seen anything 
of the kind before and had no idea at all that the strange dis- 
order might concern him. Several cracks had opened in the 
neighbourhood of the ship, and the emperor pengums, fat and 
glossy of plumage, were appearing in considerable numbers. 
We secured nhie of them on May 6, an important addition to 
our supply of fresh food. 
The sun, which had made positively his last appearance " 
seven days earlier, surprised us by lifting more than half its 
disk above the horizon on May 8. A glow on the northern 
horizon resolved itself into the sun at 11 a.m. that day. A 
quarter of an horn* later the unseasonable visitor disappeared 
again, only to rise again at 11.40 a.m., set at 1 p.m., rise at 
1.10 p.m., and set lingeringly at 1.20 p.m. These curious 
phenomena were due to refraction, which amounted to 2"^ 37' 
at 1.20 p.m. The temperature was 15° below zero Fahr., and 
we calculated that the refraction was 2° above normal. In 
other words, the sun was visible 120 miles farther south than 
the refraction tables gave it any right to be. The navigating 
officer naturally was aggrieved. He had informed all hands 
on May 1 that they would not see the sun again for seventy 
days, and now had to endure the jeers of friends who afiected 
to believe that his observations were inaccurate by a few 
degrees. 
The Endurance was drifting north-north-east under the 
influence of a succession of westerly and south-westerly breezes. 
The ship's head, at the same time, swung gradually to the left, 
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