XII 
February lU, I963 
Hope Bay. 
This is an icy, extreiaely windy place, as Capt. McBorald can tell you. 
There ai*e two bases already here, British and Argentine, The latter 
occupies the oost favorable part of the area and has the best installation 
as well as landing, or dock facilities. Landing from boats at the British 
Base is difficult except at high tide; a pier once there is no cjore. 
The Argentim B ise sits uixin what roust have been a part of the larg^ 
Adelie colony nearby. Prospects are that it will, in tic®, becoroe further 
depleted as the young pups and sledge dogs (to be) still untrained, run 
free, ¥hile we passed through three young dogs ran down, worried and 
killed a full grown penguin, Eov often this happens is anybody’s guess. 
The Argentine who was showii^ us about vent through the Esations of pulling 
the dogs off, Bla:^ed at them, which gave us the license to administer a 
kick or two, all to no avail, Th© dogs would ttirn away, but run after the 
penguin again ae soon as our backs were turned. One in a good bite - 
there was no use sticking around longer, 
With uatethesred young dogs about 01^ can easily clear off a penguin 
rookery for a building site, I do not recOHaHend this, nor write this for 
publication - this paragraph awi the one preceding Iti 
At the Argentine Base the wardroom mess was hospitably entertained at 
"Asado," a real ’’criollo” affair. 
At the British Base we had earlier had tea. Here we learned that 
occasionally Chinstraps, and a few Gentoos, turn up; that sheath-bills are 
resident, skuas aiai Domincan gulls, well-known; snow petrels are occasional 
as ai'e also Fulmers and giant petrels; shags occur in limited numbers; and 
