Up to the 29th June I made good progress southward and westward (the weather being mostly excellent), sometimes meeting dead bears, floating away on floes, sometimes dead or living walrus-herds, with troop after troop of dead kittiwakes, glaucus and ivory gulls, skuas, and every kind of Arctic fowl.

Seals and penguins capture these fish, as also, doubtless, the skuas and the petrels.

Hundreds of skuas were nesting and attacked in the usual manner as I passed.

Several skuas were about the camp yesterday.

Several skuas seenthree seals up in our Bayseveral off Pram Point in the shelter of Horse Shoe Bay.

The skuas seem to have gone, the last was seen on Sunday.

Some skuas were seen yesterday, a very late date.

Two skuas came round the camp at lunch, no doubt attracted by our 'Shambles' camp.