The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . oating away, and whenever the breaking off ofthe ice was encouraged by the strain on it, we should beobliged to shift our anchors and carry them further now replace boats, and on them we transporthawsers and ice-anchors with pickaxes and shovels, to enablethe men, once at the desired distance, to bury the anchors andfix them in firmly. At 5 we are moored, and almost every one is at workimmediately ; for I have decided to take full advantage ofthe fine weather
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . oating away, and whenever the breaking off ofthe ice was encouraged by the strain on it, we should beobliged to shift our anchors and carry them further now replace boats, and on them we transporthawsers and ice-anchors with pickaxes and shovels, to enablethe men, once at the desired distance, to bury the anchors andfix them in firmly. At 5 we are moored, and almost every one is at workimmediately ; for I have decided to take full advantage ofthe fine weather and leave again to-day, as soon as I haveexamined the offing from tho summit of the island and madea note of the land and ice in sight. I call the gulf Marguerite, after my wife, and tho island,Jenny, after Mme. Bongrain. Jenny Islands southern face has cliffs of great abruptnessand perpendicularity, even in their upper two-thirds, whichare consequently completely free of snow, which only appearsat the base. The crest of tho island is extremely jaggedcrowned with three sharp rocky peaks, which make it lookioo. THE SUMMER OF 1908-1909 from the sea like a seals tooth. The northern face, on theother hand, is a fairly even slope, rising right up to the summit,formed of rocks much surbedded by frost. Being exposed tothe sun, (he greater part of it is stripped of snow, which onlyshows itself in great patches, from which veritable little tor-rents Bpring fin lh. This face generally is slightly concaveand in colour is black or reddish. Its juncture with the per-pendicular walls of the other sides gives at first sight the im-pression of a very much damaged crater ; but even a super-ficial examination soon disposes of all ideas about a island is formed entirely of eruptive granitic rocks,eeamed with numerous veins. One of its most remarkablepeculiarities is found on the west side, in the shape of a greatbank of stone rising from the sea to a height of 10 metres,making a vast
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