They seem to have enjoyed themselves much.

Evidently the men's deck contains a very merry band.
There are three groups of penguins roosting on the floes quite close to the ship.

I made the total number of birds 39.

We could easily capture these birds, and so it is evident that food can always be obtained in the pack.
To-night I noticed a skua gull settle on an upturned block of ice at the edge of the floe on which several penguins were preparing for rest.

It is a fact that the latter held a noisy confabulation with the skua as subject--then they advanced as a body towards it; within a few paces the foremost penguin halted and turned, and then the others pushed him on towards the skua.