XVI 
February 25, 26, 1^3 
Biscovery Bay, Ash Point, Greemich IslaisS* 
Quite a wide open place, windy as all ’’get-out" while we were about, 
full of shoals; weather thick, to say the least. 
VJent out with survey party to Ash Point, hopiri® to be able to pick up 
our fish traps that had been set out the night before (February 25), but 
were I'ecalled to the ship before this could be done. 
Lt, Beam, who went ashore with the survey party, undertook to check on 
the penguins there. He saw no laore than five or six Gentoos, and a single 
Chins trap. 
At this ti53*e of year, and in the weather we encountered her^, the Point 
is a bleak, sparsely, if at all, jkjpulated plJice, In general, Chinetraps 
seeim to precordnate in the rookeries so far seen In the South Shetland 
Islands, I expected to find More here. Still, we did not get around as 
anticipated because of the weather. A nuE5>er of the ship’s personnel got 
stmnded ashore, and an equal nusber of Chileans spent the night aboard tlie 
Staten Island when tte seas and wiM got too hi^ ti« evening of the 25th, 
A dredge haul on the 26th, in 31 fathoss, raud bottcMa, at the ship’s 
anehora^ in the Bay turned up the first sizeable brachiopod of the cruise. 
Althou^ no larger around tJan a nickel, it was ever so jmioh larger than 
the few smller than pea-eize speclraens we got on other occasion; 
otherwise, there were a lot of tube dwelling worms; tiiree or four species 
of hydroids; bryozoans; a dozen extremely thln-ehelled snails, lEOstly broken 
or crushed; aral a half dozen of the rope-like colonial ascidian such as we 
had taken on several other occasions. This time we got the complete animals 
