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Track across point amongst beeches very sodden. Trees 
knocked down by hurricane and rotting. Marchantia in 
abundance, and on rocky point patches of large moss in fruit, 
closely similar to small specimens of Dawsonia on the Black 
Spur, Victoria. Little fern with leaves flat on ground every¬ 
where. 
Kelp Goose or Rock Goose (Anas antarctka) 1 extends over 
Falkland Islands, Chile, Tierra del Fuego, &c. In winter 
comes into river mouths, such as Rio Douglas, to feed, but in 
summer is out in open parts. Loggerhead Duck or Paddle or 
Steamer Duck (Anas brachyptera ), 1 really a goose, may weigh 
up to 29 pounds; has small wings that are used alternately 
as paddles. Ken told me that once a paddle duck kept flying 
or paddling ahead of his cutter, going 8 miles an hour, for 
4 miles, then dived. 
Yaghan showed us special belt of kelp which natives are 
too frightened to cross because a great monster like a huge 
worm, called Wongara , drags them and their boats under 
water. Wongara is a general word for worm. 
Very curious effect at sunset. The sky was just the same 
as in Central Australia and the Tropics, though not quite so 
brilliant as in the latter. To the south, steel-blue along 
horizon shading into peach pink above and then into cold 
blue of sky. Distant Hermite Island, &c., simply silhouetted 
in warm and then cold colour against the sky. Sea opalescent 
with shades of turquoise and saffron and green. To north 
the sky yellow and orange. In the west, the snow ranges 
tinted with the setting sun, setting very much north of west. 
To north, ranges standing out curiously against the sky. 
After sunset all snow mountains standing out strongly. The 
air was cold, freezing, and there was extraordinary mixture 
of tropical effect in sky and cold in air. 
On way back passed under precipice where great flocks 
1 Cf. Darwin, Voyage of the'Beagle', cap.ix, s.v. For Steamer Duck, cf. pp.92,143. 
