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BROOK I 
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Since Suutli (recirgia has been made a iiolitical deiiendeiic\- of the 
Falkhmds, the resident birds have come under the ]irotection of kiw. hue 
perhaps too late for the king jiengiiins because of the impracticability of 
enforcing legal restraint along hundreds of miles of isnlated, uninhabited 
coast.* 
We discovered three king jienguin colonies, all in the neighborhood 
of Pvgoscc/is rookeries, but all on low ground. The .smalle.st colony, 
comprising onh- a dozen birds, was on the west shore of Posse.ssion Ba\" ; 
the two others on the south shore of the Ba>- of Isles, five kilometers 
apart, with the barrier <if Grace Glacier between. The eastern and 
larger of these was .situated 1500 meters .south of the ba_\ among a barren 
waste of morainic .stones. A great bank of unmelting neve bounded the 
settlement on the west, while a violent glacial torrent separated it from 
the .slo])ing edge of Litcas Cilacier on the ea.st. In such a gulch, between 
walls of snow and ice, sweyit li\- southerh- gales that descended through 
a rift in the mountains, a band of about three hundred and tift\- king 
penguins made their home. Four >-ears earlier, according to members of 
the Daisy's crew, the same settlement had contained a far greater num- 
ber of birds during the breeding season. 
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