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South!

CHAPTER III
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He weighs 85 lbs., or 5 lbs.
less than the heaviest emperor captured previously.

Kerr and Cheetham insist that he is nothing to the big fellow who escaped them." This penguin's stomach proved to be filled with freshly caught fish up to 10 in.long.

Some of the fish were of a coastal or littoral variety.

Two more emperors were captured on the following day, and, while Wordie was leading one of them towards the ship, Wild came along with his team.

The dogs, uncontrollable in a moment, made a frantic rush for the bird, and were almost upon him when their harness caught upon an ice-pylon, which they had tried to pass on both sides at once.
The result was a seething tangle of dogs, traces, and men, and an overturned sled, while the penguin, three yards away, nonchalantly and indifferently surveyed the disturbance.


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