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well as for mere work and food, and when they learn how 
they can satisfy these wholesome appetites, then they will 
breed fewer and bigger, and less like rabbits in a protected 
warren. 
Sunday, \gth February. — Last night we lay close-hauled, 
for it was dark and misty, and there would have been a 
risk of running into some of the small, scattered bergs. 
This morning we steamed again with fore-and-aft canvas, 
steering N. by W. The air was warm to-day, and we had 
rain for the first time since we made the ice. In the 
middle of the day we were under the lee of Clarence 
Island, the most easterly of the South Shetland Islands. 
We passed it distant about twenty miles, I should think. 
We cannot help thinking with a shudder that there 
may be some poor fellows on those wild, snow-covered 
