being recorded on the 6th.

We made mattresses for the dogs by stuffing sacks with straw and rubbish, and most of the animals were glad to receive this furnishing in their kennels.

Some of them had suffered through the snow melting with the heat of their bodies and then freezing solid.
The scientific members of the expedition were all busy by this time.
The meteorologist had got his recording station, containing anemometer, barograph, and thermograph, rigged over the stern.

The geologist was making the best of what to him was an unhappy situation; but was not altogether without material.

The pebbles found in the penguins were often of considerable interest, and some fragments of rock were brought up from the sea floor with the sounding-lead and the drag-net.