IX February 10, 11, 
23 and 24, 1963 
Brialmont Cove, Alcock Island, Spring Point. 
Several hours were spent locating a suitable and satisfactory an¬ 
chorage ; a considerable part of the cove is around 200 fms. deep. 
This is quite a lively place, seals scattered about. It has been 
some time since we have seen quite so many around any of our anchorages. 
They were mostly, or all, crabeaters. Capt. McDonald said that he saw 
one leopard seal in the bay, and a number about Alcock Island on which 
there is a large penguin colony. 
We killed one of the crab-eaters for bait for our fish traps .(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 precaution 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 ends of the stomach were distinctly different in color, and 1 
believe due to a difference in species rather than degree of digestion. 
Shall check when specimens get home. 
Contemplating that seal's relatively small mouth and insignificant 
teeth, and then the gallons of shrimp in its stomach, one is forced to 
conclude that the krill were so numerous and so crowded together that the 
mass of them must have had the consistency of thick porridge. How else 
could that seal have picked up perhaps three gallons of small shrimp in 
his small mouth? 
Again, the usual run of birds, more numerous than usual: Storm 
