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[[Circled]] Dec. 24 [[/circled]] 1962 Weddell
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Waddle
1200 70[[degree symbol]] 26 7'S 174 [[degree symbol]] 40E 3 seals
1230 70 26. 7S 174 40 E 2 seals
1430 1 seal
0115 4 seal
[[circled]] Dec. 25 [[/circled]]
0115 68 16 178 52 4 seals
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[[circled]] Jan. 7, 1963 [[/circled]]
1430 50 36S 173 44W 6-10 penguins
1522 50 40 173 40W. 6-10 whales
1 whale
[[circled]] Jan 12 [[/circled]]
1910 68 [[degree symbol]] 10'S 120[[degree symbol]] 50W. 2 penguins
20-24
2005 68 06.1 120 04W 2 Adelies
2054 68 03 119 40 c 1 Emperor peng.
1300 67 14S 113 50W 1 Weddell Sea
1555 67 46 114 07 1 seal
[[circled]] 13 Jan [[/circled]]
2200 66[[degree symbol]] 50S 110[[degree symbol]] 20'W. 1 seal
0835 66 10 3 110 10.3 1 seal
0850 66 10 13S 110 10.3W 3 seals
[[circled]] 14 Jan [[/circled]]
1615 67 26S 107 20W 1 killer
1430 67 26 93 37W 1 seal
0210 67 26 93 37 3 penguins
[[circled]] Jan 16 [[/circled]]
1537 69 10 59 30W 1 Emperor peng.
[[circled]] Jan 17 [[/circled]]
0755 66 57.5S 72 37.8 1 seal
1042 67 00 71 35 1 seal
[[circled]] 18 Jan [[/circled]]
11 11 67 00S 71 35W. 1 leopard seal
11 12 """""[[dittos for: 67 00S 71 35W]]
[[circled]]27 Jan [[/circled]]
1640 65 04S 63 52W. [[arrow pointing to right]] {5 seals
{12 penguins
{3 whales
2300 [[line across page]] 2 penguins
28 Jan 1411 1 ([[Lt j4 Beam)?]]
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apart during day. Most of yesterday I spent in the public Library here checking up on Antarctic animal & biology literature. I want to go back at least another day to check over some of the reports of earlier expeditions.I had intended doing this at home and would have done so except for that darn moving. I hate to think of what I have awaiting me back at Museum.
Too bad that mail is going to be so little and far between. Now take this one. If I send it home Thelma will have to forward it, but at that it will just about reach you when you get to California. ///There is nothing much else to write a-bout. Here at this hotel the meat is mutton most all the time but they do have a fish course and now and then pork and chicken, of course eggs for breakfast almost smothered in bacon strips, not crisp fried either. I try to have them bring me only one strip, but they seem incapable of doing it, or just won't from force of habit.// The hot tea at 7 a.m served in room is not so bad - in a fairly cold room. However the water runs hot and that's a comfort.
Maybe at Eddie's place over the week end I'l have a table to write on. Next week if we still are here I shall try to get in a little collecting. I'd hate to be here a couple of weeks and not have a New Zealand crab for the Museum collection, but nothing is handy, and the few "tools" I brought are so tied up in warehouse at airport that I can't well get at them. They are also too well packed to undo for fooling around here. /// Also I am afraid I'll have to let Christmas buying go over. the sending is the chief problem after trying to think of what to buy. I do hope you are keeping "weller," getting over that too worried spell. It will be nice to see Barb and the kids again. Lots of love girl first to you and then the rest - from the old man - Waldo
Transcription Notes:
I am hoping that I transcribed the first page correctly concerning the degrees symbol. Any feedback would be appreciated. *I've seen comments both ways, so go for consistency on page.
--Many of the marks on the first page previously interpreted as ditto marks are instead bleed through or rubbed off from text on other pages, and have accordingly been removed.
