z8o FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
for seals from the crovv's-ncst to-day — the fog up there is 
thicker than on deck. So the Mjolnar 1 is allowed to 
drift South With the ice and snow, her head pointing 
east and her wheel lashed. Occasionally we steam up 
wind or ahead to clear ice. Tall bergs show faint and 
ghost-like through the mist to leeward. 
I saw the Jason close alongside one of these bergs, and 
its height was fully twice that of her masts. 
All hands are working hard at making off, and the pile 
of skins is reduced to a few feet high ; the object is to get 
the decks cleared against the next sunny day, when the 
seals will come on to the ice to bask, 
I am surprised there are so few birds about us, when 
1 Mjolnar is the name <>n out counter now. The Atlantic waves rubbed 
off the painted name Balsena, ami washed die plaster of Paris out of the 
carving <»i oui vessel's old name, so we are Thors Hammer once again. 
