IX 
February 10, 11 
23 and 2k, 1963 
Brialraont Cove, Alcock Island, Spring Point. 
Several hours were spent locating a suitable airf satisfactory anchor- 
age; a considerable part of the cove is around 200 fathoms deep. 
This is quite a lively place, seals scatteired about. It has been 
some til?® since we have seen quite so many aroimd any of our anchorages. 
They are mostly, or all, crab-eaters, Capt. McDonald said that he saw 
one leopard seal in the bay, aid a number about Alcock Is lard on which 
there is a large penguin colony. 
We killed one of the crab-eaters for bait for our fish traj®, Doty 
shot him; the very first shot must have severed the spinal cord, for the 
seal quivered and died. Doty’s second shot was not needed but was fired 
as a prrecaution before the boat crew climbed over onto the ice cake where 
the seal was resting so that we could get this "ton," it seemed, of seal 
meat aboard. In its stomach were several gallons of krill. The krill in 
the two erds of the stomach were distinctly different in color, aid I 
believe due to a difference in species rather than degree of digestion. 
Shall check when specimens get ho^ae. 
Contemplating that seal’s relatively small south aid insignificant 
teeth, and then the gallons of shrimp in its stosach, one la forced to 
conclude that the krill were so numeraus ard so crowded together that the 
mass of them must have had the consistency of thick porridge. How else 
could that seal have picked vp perhaps three gallons of small shrimp in 
his small mouth? 
