The others show
fight, but all are imprisoned in an igloo for the night.... In the
afternoon we see five emperors in the western lead and capture one.
Kerr and Cheetham fight a valiant action with two large birds. Kerr
rushes at one, seizes it, and is promptly knocked down by the angered
penguin, which jumps on his chest before retiring. Cheetham comes to
Kerr's assistance; and between them they seize another penguin, bind
his bill and lead him, muttering muffled protests, to the ship like an
inebriated old man between two policemen. He weighs 85 lbs., or 5 lbs.
less than the heaviest emperor captured previously. Kerr and Cheetham
insist that he is nothing to the big fellow who escaped them."
This penguin's stomach proved to be filled with freshly caught fish up
to 10 in. long. Some of the fish were of a coastal or littoral
variety. Two more emperors were captured on the following day, and,
while Wordie was leading one of them towards the ship, Wild came along
with his team. The dogs, uncontrollable in a moment, made a frantic
rush for the bird, and were almost upon him when their harness caught
upon an ice-pylon, which they had tried to pass on both sides at once.
The result was a seething tangle of dogs, traces, and men, and an
overturned sled, while the penguin, three yards away, nonchalantly and
indifferently surveyed the disturbance.
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