doffing from time to tli^ their caps of clotEis, thus granting the "by- 
stander’* aa opportunity to photograph them full stature.* 
* "in all their imposirig graisieur" I wanted to add but dared not. I beg 
to be forgiven for ^tinning in this "rave" but you would have been moved to 
feel it, if not say ssach the eanse had you been with us t!mt lovely night 
of Jitnuary 27, 196 3 « 
fhirfy to 35 miles to the south you cc^ to Caj^ Tuxen and Green Is- 
land in the Berthe lots with its "...luxuriant growth of isose nearly four 
acres in extent... by far the largest tmb3X>ken (six) ^tch of vegetation yet 
foiHid in Antarctica," On the way, teving paeseo Ples^au ars3 Petermann Is- 
land, with their Adelle and Gentoo rcxjkeries, elmg and tern colonies, and 
tiie Ar^ntln© Islands, where on Galindea the British Base in this area is 
located, you also would have seen fields of ice on which nus^roas seals 
were lying ^out, 
li^t miles from the western er»5 of the base-Iii^ is Cape Monaco (not 
seen) with its re^rted garland of six islets, reported as crowded with 
penguins in season, and 42 miles out of Bismrck Strait you come to Victor 
Hugo Island, and beyond tlmt the open sea. 
Some 50 miles to the north via the Heuraayer Channel, an interesting 
stretch itself, are the Melchior Islands off the north coast of Anvers 
Island with its Inhospitable embayments. In the Melchiors, on lambda Island 
is an unoccupied Argentine Base. Though there was not much on land to 
interest vm, the fishing was good asxJ the dredging promising. 
