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PENGUINS AND MUSIC 
5' 
Wilson some charming pictures of the pack and bergs ; 
certainly our voyage will be well illustrated. We find 
quite a lot of sketching talent. Day, Taylor, Debenham, 
and Wright all contribute to the elaborate record of the 
bergs and ice features met with. 
5 p.m. — The wind has settled to a moderate gale from 
S.W. We went 2 J miles this morning, then became 
jammed again. The effort has taken us well clear of the 
threatening bergs. Some others to leeward now are a 
long way off, but they are there and to leeward, robbing 
our position of its full measure of security. Oh ! but 
it's mighty trying to be delayed and delayed like this, and 
coal going all the time — also we are drifting N. and E. — 
the pack has carried us 9' N. and 6' E. It really is very 
distressing. I don't like letting fires go out with these 
bergs about. 
Wilson went over the floe to capture some penguins 
and lay flat on the surface. We saw the birds run up 
to him, then turn within a few feet and rush away again. 
He says that they came towards him when he was sing- 
ing, and ran away again when he stopped. They were all 
one-year birds, and seemed exceptionally shy ; they 
appear to be attracted to the ship by a fearful curiosity.? 
A chain of bergs must form a great obstruction to 
a field of pack ice, largely preventing its drift and form- 
ing lanes of open water. Taken in conjunction with the 
effect of bergs in forming pressure ridges, it follows that 
bergs have a great influence on the movement as well as 
the nature of pack. 
Thursday > 9 December 22. — Noon 68° 26'2" S., 197° 8'5" W. 
