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perforated the metal and torn it up as with
a cold chisel. Salt meats - even soaked
pork they would not eat but every
thing else entered their insatiable maw.
Preserved milk and meat biscuit, and ground
coffee - and old canvas - even our flag
was gnawed down to its very staff. They
showed too a spirit of delicate humour -
for they rolled our bread barrels over the
ice foot into the broken ice - and tied
hard knots into the threads of our India
rubber bags. The whole area around
the slopes was marked by their tracks - and
they had proof that these strange beasts
slide down slopes of over 45º upon their
haunches.

The chart of last fall constructed
on a plane scale of 1/7th inch to the geogra=
phical mile - the present chart upon the
same scale is our final one and has
been carefully projected by Mr. Sonntag from
the combined result of all our operations.
the trend and topography of the coast as
well as the determinations of position are
entitled to more reliance than field operations
generally - for in addition to observed positions
by ar.t horizon and Chronometer - our results
were strengthened by several sets of sextant
triangulations and repeated solar bearings
-the whole corroberated by comparison with
the work of several parties - and rendered
positive by being connected by Theodolite
with the well determined position of the
Winter Observatory.

This position is based
upon a well sustained series of lunar
culminations, the determination of local
time being in no case dependant upon
less than twelve star transits. But