These beasts have a habit of locating a resting seal by looking over the edge of a floe and then striking through the ice from below in search of a meal; they would not distinguish between seal and man.
The noon position on January 8 was lat.

70ｰ 0ｴ S., long.

19ｰ 09ｴ W.We had made 66 miles in a north-easterly direction during the preceding twenty-four hours.

The course during the afternoon was east-south-east through loose pack and open water, with deep hummocky floes to the south.

Several leads to the south came in view, but we held on the easterly course.