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crying out ludicrously whenever one of us imitated its call. The little creature became quite exhausted, as we were steaming through lighter ice at the time and it had to swim steadily after us. The poor bird was unable to reach the ship, as the 'kick' of the propeller swirled it away whenever it caught us up. As often as this happened the penguin would struggle on to a floe and reel about like a drunken man, until finally it lay still, thoroughly defeated.

We were completely beset with ice on January 6 Jan. 6 and 7, 1913, 71° 40′ S., 166° 47′ W. and 7, and the officers spent their time working for Lillie, obtaining plankton and water-bottle samples at many different depths.

Lillie put out his twenty-four mesh net at 1000 metres, and obtained a lot of specimens, including a fine jelly-fish.

On January 8, the ice opening up, we proceeded slowly on our way. We passed close alongside a low hummocky Jan. 8, 1913, 71° 41′ S., 167° 4′ W. iceberg which had three Emperor penguins on it. They must have been there some weeks, as the surface of the berg was much soiled and the snow trodden about over a great area. The iceberg was too high for the birds to have regained had they once left it. Two of the Emperors were very thin; the third, an enormous bird, was moulting and one could not make out what sort of condition he was in.

Until January 14 progress was painfully slow, but on this day the ship worked through into looser ice. The pack was eventually cleared on January 16 in Lat. 74° 50′ S., Long. 177° 15′ E.