The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . he spring. It is proved that we are only seeing the adultsback again, not one of the nestlings hatched on the islandthe previous year having returned. It even seems that thesepenguins come back to the same places in their little family which used to live in a cavity in the rock isback again, but the loony is missing ; perhaps they havehad to shut him up in an asylum. On (lie 9th the first egg was laid. Access to one portionof the rookery was henceforward totally cut of
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . he spring. It is proved that we are only seeing the adultsback again, not one of the nestlings hatched on the islandthe previous year having returned. It even seems that thesepenguins come back to the same places in their little family which used to live in a cavity in the rock isback again, but the loony is missing ; perhaps they havehad to shut him up in an asylum. On (lie 9th the first egg was laid. Access to one portionof the rookery was henceforward totally cut off, so that Gainmight continue his embryological researches under the bestpossible conditions. I lent him my bacteriological stove,which is transformed into an incubator for hatching out theeggs of various species of birds. The seals on the ice are also in great number, and we havecounted as many as fifty individuals in a group. Lerebourg has replaced Dufreche as assistant in (holaboratory. November 14.—One of our great anxieties for the momentis to find how we can fill our boiler and our casks with fresh244. AUTUMN, WINTER, AND SPRING, 1909 water. If necessary, we could use sea-water for the first,but it has been kept in such good order hitherto that I shallonly risk this as the last extremity. To-day Gueguen, helpedby sonic of his comrades, is busy digging trenches to try tocatch the water which the thaw sets running under the glaciercovering the island. In spite of all his efforts the quantity?which he gets is still insufficient. Gueguen, however, doesnot despair, and night and day we see him wandering aboutwitli a bucket, a spade, and a length of hose. He is a swornfoe to the ice and makes violent attacks on it. When wehave to get some off an ice-block or to break or moor one ofthe blocks, Gueguen is always to the fore, and the usuallygentle fellow becomes violent, hitting out wrathfully andinsulting his enemy under his breath. He was like this onthe first Expedition and h
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