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sort of hitch with its shoulders ; then it got up and stood 
on its feet again, and looked at us calmly as we struggled 
after it through the soft snow. When we got near it 
again, five of us made a rush 
at it, and the bo'sun got in 
first, and scragged it with both 
hands round its neck. The 
two rolled over together on 
the snow, and the penguin 
freed its neck and began to 
let drive with its beak at the 
bo'sun 's head, but missed, fortu- 
nately. It had no chance, how- 
ever; we fell on it altogether 
and made it 'have down.' Its 
strength astonished us. One 
man held its neck, other two 
got hold of a flipper a-piece, 
and two others held the legs. 
With all our strength we could scarcely keep hold of it ; 
and yet it did not seem to be in the least flurried, or put 
out — merely moved its flippers slowly, and drew up and ex- 
tended its short legs, but that nearly twisted our arms off. 
It was too difficult to carry it to the boat this way, so we 
strapped him round the middle, with his flippers down by 
his side. We used the bo'sun's belt — a broad affair with a 
big brass buckle, and hauled till the penguin collapsed like 
a Gladstone bag. Then we made another belt fast round 
his short legs, and stood up and drew a breath of relief, 
and so did the penguin — a long sigh from the bottom of its 
