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on the skirting, the snow being all blown off. In the evening Browning got two penguins for the pot.

February 10.—Still blowing very hard, too hard in fact to set up the theodolite. Priestley and party pulled in about 2 p.m. He said they had had a gale of wind the whole time, the wind only dropping for two hours. The moraine we saw from the top of the island appears to be the Priestley Glacier moraine. They found some sandstone with fossil wood inclusions, but not such good specimens as we got inland.

In the afternoon Priestley and I found a lot of shells, worm casts, and sponge spicules in little holes on the piedmont.

February 11. The wind dropped after breakfast, so Priestley, Dickason, and I sledged over to the hills north of us and camped by a lake on the southern slopes. Levick, Abbott, and Browning, leaving their camp standing, examined Evans Coves on the S. Island. They found a small penguin rookery and a large number of seals on the ice foot.

They also found a large number of old dead seals on the beach, one or two of the largest measuring 12 feet in length.

February 12.—Heavy snow, wind, and drift all day. Levick and his party pulled in about 3 p.m. and camped near us.

February 13.—Snowing all night, and although it eased this morning, it kept on all day, stopping our survey completely. In the evening we killed three penguins for food. Levick and party returned to the main depôt.