r future requirements.

On the 25th Sandell and I visited the west coast, but, instead of going
the usual way, we walked down the east coast and went up the creek at
"The Nuggets" with a view to having a look at the penguin colonies along
its course, finally crossing over the hills and getting into another
creek, which we followed all the way down to the west coast. Along this
creek were numerous waterfalls, one of which was quite sixty feet in
height with wind-blown spray frozen white on the rocks on either side.
We came across several giant petrel rookeries, and were treated to a
display of the "stinker's" ability to make himself objectionable. A pair
of sooty albatrosses were seen nesting on the front of a rocky steep,
but on climbing up we found that they had not yet laid. After catching
some wekas and taking a few photographs we returned to the Shack.

On the last day of the month several of us crossed the hills to the west
coast in search of plants and birds' eggs. We secured a number of plant
specimens--a further sign of the arrival of spring--including two which
bore a very small flower, and were most successful in obtaining skuas',
giant petrels' and sooty albatrosses' eggs.

During the evening I received a message from Captain Davis stating that
the 'Aurora' would visit us in about three weeks' time and inquiring if
we needed any supplies. This was entirely unexpected, as we thought that
no more would be seen of the Ship until she came to take us home at the
end of March 1913.

Earthquake shocks were felt at 1.55 A.M. and 9.35 A.M. on October 28,
but did no damage other than to bring down some loose rock. Auroral
displays were rather frequent but not very pronounced, and in most cases
could only be classed as "glows."

A bright sunny morning on the 3rd induced Hamilton and me to make a
photographic excursion along the coast. Hitherto only still-life photos
had been taken, but with the sunlight we were then having, any work was
possible, so we determined to have some "shots" at the sea elephants.
They were rather difficult subjects, strange to say, but we spent some
time amongst them and did famously, till a snow-squall made us suspend
operations.

We heard the discordant but mournful cry of a sooty albatross coming
from the cliff-front, so Hamilton climbed up and, after scrambling about
for a while, succeeded in finding a nest, which contained one egg. This
led him to look along the cliffs fronting the e