in our meteorological code-book. The reports from Macquarie Island
and Adelie Land were communicated to Mr. Hunt of the Commonwealth
Weather Bureau and to Mr. Bates of the Dominion Meteorological Office,
who plotted them out for their daily weather forecasts.

It was very gratifying to learn that the Macquarie Island party to a man
had consented to remain at their lonely post and from Ainsworth,
their leader, I received a brief report of the work which had been
accomplished by each member. We all could appreciate the sacrifice they
were making. Then, too, an account was received of the great sledging
efforts which had been made by Wild and his men to the west. But it was
not till the end of the year that their adventurous story was related to
us in detail.

On the 23rd Lassie, one of the dogs, was badly wounded in a fight and
had to be shot. Quarrels amongst the dogs had to be quelled immediately,
otherwise they would probably mean the death of some unfortunate animal
which happened to be thrown down amongst the pack. Whenever a dog was
down, it was the way of these brutes to attack him irrespective of
whether they were friends or foes.

Among our dogs there were several groups whose members always consorted
together. Thus, George and Lassie were friends and, when the latter was
killed, George, who was naturally a miserable, downtrodden creature,
became a kind of pariah, morose and solitary and at war with all except
Peary and Fix, with whom he and Lassie had been associated in fights
against the rest. The other dogs lived together in some kind of harmony,
Jack and Amundsen standing out as particular chums, while the "pups," as
we called them--D'Urville, Ross and Wilkes ("Monkey")--were a trio born
in Adelie Land and, therefore, comrades in misfortune. Hoyle, as a pup,
was treated benevolently by all the others, and entered the fellowship
of the other three when he grew up. Among the rest, Mikkel stood out as
a good fighter, Colonel as the biggest dog and ringleader against the
Peary-Fix faction, Fram as a nervous intractable animal, and Mary as the
sole representative of the sex.

It was remarkable that Peary, Fix and George in their hatred of the
others, who were penned up in the dog shelter during bad weather, would
absent themselves for days on a snow ramp near the Magnetograph House,
where they were partly protected from the wind by rocks. George, from
being a mere associate of Peary and Fix, became more amiable