All hands were recovering from the chafing caused by our wet clothes during the boat journey.

The insides of our legs had suffered severely, and for some time after landing in the cove we found movement extremely uncomfortable.

We paid our last visit to the nests of the albatrosses, which were situated on a little undulating plateau above the cave amid tussocks, snow-patches, and little frozen tarns.

Each nest consisted of a mound over a foot high of tussock-grass, roots, and a little earth.

The albatross lays one egg and very rarely two.