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Hoseason Island, its earlier name possibly perpetuating 
the memory of some American sealer, who otherwise 
would be forgotten. The ship took up temporary head- 
quarters in the vast crater of Deception Island, near the 
Yankee Harbour of the Stonington fleet, renamed Port 
Foster. Captain Foster's name deserves to be com- 
memorated in the Southern Seas, for his early death be- 
fore the voyage was concluded, was a loss not only to 
the Royal Navy, but to science. It would, however, have 
been more appropriate to attach his name to Cape Pos- 
session than to overshadow so quaint and interesting a 
landmark in the history of the Antarctic as the Yankee 
Harbour of the old New England skippers. From Jan- 
uary 9th to March 4th, the Chanticleer lay in this safe 
and commodious harbour, while the observations were 
diligently carried on ashore, and then it was high time to 
make for the north to escape the on-coming winter. 
The medical officers of the ship studied the plant and 
animal life of this strange shell of an island, and one 
of them, the Dr. Webster who preserved for us the word 
portrait of Palmer with his basket of albatross eggs, also 
made some experiments on the floating of ice in sea- 
water with reference to the phenomena of icebergs. A 
registering thermometer was left on the island so that the 
subsequent finder could tell the extremes of temperature 
which had been experienced. 
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