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One sees Inst a small dark hump appear and (hen immediately •» jet 
of grey to;; squirted upwards fifteen to eighteen feet, gradually spreading 
as it rises vertically into the frosty air. I have l>ccn nearly in these 
blows once or twite ami had tin* moisture in my face with a iickoolog 
smell of shrimpy oil. Then the dump elongates ami up rolls an immense 
blue-grey or blackish grey round bat k with a faint ridgfl along the top, 
on which presently appears a small hook like dorsal tin, and then the 
win ile sinks and disappears. [Dr. Wilson's Journal.] 
Note 5, p. 32. — December 1 H. Watered ship at a tumbled Hue. 
Sea ice when pressed up into large Iiuiuiium ks giadu.dly loses all its 
salt. EvOQ when sea water freezes it squeezes out the great bulk of 
its salt as a solid, but the sea water gels into it by soaking again, and 
yet when held out of the water, as it is in a Iiiiiiiiikm k, the ill all drains 
out and the melted Ice is blue and quite good for drinking, engines, tVc. 
[Dr. Wilson's Journal.] 
Note 6, />. .17. — It may be added that in contradistinction to I he- 
nicknames of Skipper conferred Upon Kvans, and Mate on Campbell, 
Scott himself was known among the afterguard as The Owner. 
Note 7, p. 51. — -(Penguins.) They have lost none of their attra< tive- 
ncss, and arc most comical and interesting ; as curious as over, they 
will always come Up al a trot when we sing to them, and you may often 
see a group of explorers on the |>oop singing ' l ot she's got bells ,,n her 
fingers and rings on her toes, elephants to tide upon whetever she 
goes,' ami so on at the top of their voices to an admiring group of 
Adelie penguins. Means is the greatest attraction; he has a hilt 
voice which is musical but always very Hal. Me declares that 1 God 
save the King ' will always send them to the water, and certainly it is 
often sui cessful. [Dr. Wilson's Journal.] 
Note 8, p. 84. — Wc were to examine the possibilities of landing, 
but the swell was so heavy in its break among the floating blocks 
of ice along the actual Ijcach and ice foot that a landing was out 
of the question. We should have broken up the boat and have 
all been in the water together. I3ut I assure you it was tantalising to 
me, for there about 6 feet above us on a small dirty piece of the old bay 
ice about ten feet square one living Emperor penguin Chf< k was stand- 
ing disconsolately stranded, and dose by stood one faithful old 
Emperor parent asleep. This young EmpeiOr was still iii the down, 
a most interesting fact in the bird's life history at which we had rightly 
guessed, but which no one had actually observed before. It was in 
a stage never yet seen or collected, for the wings were already quite 
clean (4 down and feath.-ied as in I he adult, also a line down the breast 
was shed of down, and part of the head. This bird would have be, n 
a treasure to tne, but we could not risk life for it, so it had to remain 
