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and also he book, saying I had one too aboard the Staten Id. // The trailer such as it was was aluminum sided and (at least as yet not insulated, but certainly was warm. The a.m. has ushered in with a 24°F temp that did go up by afternoon. Had hoped for a "drag" [[insertion]] dredge haul [[/insertion]] but ice conditions were against it even while lying of [[strikethrough]] seym [[/strikethrough]] ice shelf.
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They say that birds are very few. [[insertion, in blue]] 2 dog teams [[/insertion]] We saw a number of [[underlined, in blue]] Weddel seals [[/underlined]], lying singely on the ice while steamin toward Robertson Id., and way back, headed for Cape Longing, I saw about 3 or 4 swimming in the water.
{From the wheel house Mr.Camplell told me that they saw a single [[underlined, in blue]] Emperor penguin [[/underlined]] [[/left margin, vertical wavy line]] during forenoon, and at lunch time Jack and I from porthole saw two groups of Adelies on ice cake.
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Feb. 17th a relatively quiet day, but for 9-10 [[left margin, vertical wavy line]] oclock dredge haul; and last of moss from Yankee Hbr. got rock samples, into [[insertion]] ess [[/insertion]] crate in locker in room, have not yet gotten at dry samples; copied temperature records in this book saw quite number of seals yesterday, here and there basking on ice cakes, of medium size, [[strikethrough]] Few penguins going by [[/strikethrough]] on ice cakes where headed.