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to an interesting note by Charles Darwin. The strong 
belief of Biscoe that all Antarctic ice originated at sea 
led that explorer to ignore or explain away the reports 
of earth-stained ice made by Weddell and others, but 
Darwin points out that a stone had once before been seen 
on an iceberg during a sealing cruise by a former boat- 
swain of H. M. S. Beagle. The existence of these em- 
bedded rocks can only be accounted for on the hypothesis 
of the origin of the icebergs as land-ice, and Darwin 
points out that the block seen by the Eliza Scott must 
have drifted certainly more than ioo miles, and probably 
more than 450 miles from the land of its origin, while it 
was 1400 miles distant from the nearest certainly-known 
land, that of Enderby. 
This day was diversified by another episode which 
was much more momentous for the two junior mem- 
bers of the expedition than any discovery in natural 
science. The veil rises for a moment from the social 
life of those two lonely little craft tossing amongst the 
ice on the very verge of the known world, but it falls 
again so quickly that we can picture little from the 
glimpse. “ This morning Captain Freeman came on 
board and brought the boy Smith with him and took the 
boy Juggins on board the cutter.” We can only specu- 
late whether the wretched Smith was brought on board 
for purposes of discipline and the proud Juggins pro- 
moted to his place, or whether the miserable Juggins was 
condemned for some dereliction of duty to the smaller 
craft and fortune smiled on the happy Smith. A good 
deal hinges on the question whether the boy Smith was 
identical with Smith the fisherman, for on the 16th 
Moore once more refers to the life on board : 
“At 10 Smith, the fisherman, being at the tiller, and 
