Two or three times in the twenty-four hours
he starts a howl--a deep, melodious howl--and in about thirty seconds
he has the whole pack in full song, the great deep, booming, harmonious
song of the half-wolf pack."
By the middle of September we were running short of fresh meat for
the dogs. The seals and penguins seemed to have abandoned our
neighbourhood altogether. Nearly five months had passed since we
killed a seal, and penguins had been seen seldom. Clark, who was using
his trawl as often as possible, reported that there was a marked
absence of plankton in the sea, and we assumed that the seals and the
penguins had gone in search of their accustomed food. The men got an
emperor on the 23rd. The dogs, which were having their sledging
exercise, became wildly excited when the penguin, which had risen in a
crack, was driven ashore, and the best efforts of the drivers failed to
save it alive. On the following day Wild, Hurley, Macklin, and McIlroy
took their teams to the Stained Berg, about seven miles west of the
ship, and on their way back got a female crab-eater, which they killed,
skinned, and left to be picked up later. They ascended to the top of
the berg, which lay in about lat. 69° 30? S., long. 51° W., and from an
elevation of 110 ft. could see no land. Samples of the discoloured
ice from the berg proved to contain dust with black gritty particles or
sand-grains.
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