io8 FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
and was soaped and shaved, bald head and all, and 
Then wild riots 
began : one po- 
liceman shoved 
another into the 
bath, and Nep- 
tune's doctor 
followed. The 
bears were in the 
poolalready,and 
if her Majesty 
had not cut and 
run, she would 
have been upset 
too. All day 
long the play 
went on, till at 
night we were 
so tired with the heat and the fun and the laughing that 
we could scarcely move. 
Friday y 2§th. — S. Lat. 4.42 ; long. 30.34. Called Banyan 
Day in polite sea circles ; amongst the men, Starvation 
Day, because of the dinner of scouse and rice. Scouse 
is Tommy Atkins' skilly. 
It is hot, dark, and quiet on deck to-night ; the only 
sound is the swishing of warm sea across our waist — 
a drowsy, soothing sound. . . . We have passed a big 
ship ; she was just rather too close. She loomed 
up suddenly to windward out of the blackness, in the 
plunged into the sail in his uniform. 
Botinar, A. IS. and harpooneer. 
