Hercules for the last fortnight or more has constituted himself leader of the orchestra.

Two or three times in the twenty-four hours he starts a howl--a deep, melodious howl--and in about thirty seconds he has the whole pack in full song, the great deep, booming, harmonious song of the half-wolf pack." By the middle of September we were running short of fresh meat for the dogs.

The seals and penguins seemed to have abandoned our neighbourhood altogether.

Nearly five months had passed since we killed a seal, and penguins had been seen seldom.

Clark, who was using his trawl as often as possible, reported that there was a marked absence of plankton in the sea, and we assumed that the seals and the penguins had gone in search of their accustomed food.