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Wed. Jan. 23/63

Official temperature on ship was 44°F but it certainly felt warmer ashore. We all guessed it closer to 50° than that. This a.m. barometer was lowest of trip 28.03 I was told.

2 Whales, very large seen in morning from w.h.

Got away at 8:45. missed taking wind sculptured ice berg [[image]] regular chess man yesterday as we passed to put traps down today after the willy-wa it was a needle point, narrow pyramid [[image]]

Had fish in our traps and a few other oddities, a mollusk, parasitic isopod, on ship, a scorpion fish and the big eyed large mouth feet inches long were taken over the side, also a compound ascidian, and [[strikethrough]] sipunculid [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] nemertean [[/insertion]], another one or two was seen at surface by Jack. Now as I think of it could they have been disloged by fishing activities?

Lacking boat without davit, did not dredge.

Returned to ship 1:30 to get location of Bonapart[[insertion]]e[[/insertion]] Point from chart as had none after that we went over to look at it but lost half hour or more while malfunctioning boat radio was tinkered with. 

[[strikethrough]] Then [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] After looking for sites described by Carr, [[strikethrough]] we [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] went over to penguin rookery for Stevens and got a few [[strikethrough]] bi [[/strikethrough]] diverse [[by?]] very profuse lichens, clumps of soil and grass, also a few of purplish ^ [[insertion]] coated [[/insertion]] pebbles to

[[margin note, written vertically, bottom to top]] Ship was worried about us yesterday as wind was getting up and radio not working)

Wind blew out ice, an advantage [[/margin]]

Transcription Notes:
willy-wa's," or wind eddies Sipuncula or Sipunculida: (common names sipunculid worms Nemertea: also known as "ribbon worms"