CONTENTS
of
THE FIRST VOLUME
THROUGH STORMY SEAS
Page
General Stowage—A Last Scene in New Zealand—Departure—On Deck with the Dogs—The Storm—The Engine-room Flooded—Clearing the Pumps—Cape Crozier as a Station—Birds of the South—A Pony's Memory—Tabular Bergs—An Incomparable Scene—Formation of the Pack—Movements of the Floes |
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IN THE PACK
A Reported Island—Incessant Changes—The Imprisoning Ice—Ski-ing and Sledging on the Floes—Movement of Bergs—Opening of the Pack—A Damaged Rudder—To Stop or not to Stop—Nicknames—Ski Exercise—Penguins and Music—Composite Floes—Banked Fires—Christmas in the Ice—The Penguins and the Skua—Ice Movements—State of the Ice-house—Still in the Ice—Life in the Pack—Escape from the Pack—A Calm—The Pack far to the North—Science in the Ice |
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LAND
Land at Last—Reach Cape Crozier—Cliffs of Cape Crozier—Landing Impossible—Penguins and Killers—Cape Evans as Winter Station—The Ponies Landed—Penguins' Fatuous Conduct—Adventure with Killer Whales—Habits of the Killer Whale—Landing Stores—The Skuas Nesting—Ponies and their Ways—Dangers of the Rotting Ice |
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