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226 which they carefully preserved; they also found a part of a pitch-pot, which would hold about a gallon. This proved highly valuable to them, for by help of a piece of iron hoop, they afterwards manufactured it into a frying-pan, their other one being worn so thin by continued use that it was scarcely fit to cook in. Digging further, they found a broad axe, a sharpening stone, a piece of a shovel, and an auger, also a number of iron hoops. These things were of essential service to them. They did not save any of their lances from the vessel, and they had often considerable labour to kill the large male sea-elephants; but they now took the handle of their old frying-pan, and with this weapon dispatched these animals with ease.

These animals, although of enormous size, offered scarcely any resistance, and were very sluggish in their movements, and consequently easily killed. They used first to give them a blow on the nose with the flat side of the lance, when they would rear themselves up above their height, resting on their fore flippers, and were soon dispatched with lances, as they then presented the parts most easily penetrated, and their movements were only backward, without changing their upright position, as they repeated their assaults.

One of the party had fortunately saved his watch uninjured, so that they were able to divide their time pretty regularly. When settled in their habitation, they usually rose about eight in the morning, and took breakfast at nine. After breakfast, some of the party would go catering for the day's provisions, whilst the others remained home to fulfil the domestic offices. They dined generally about one o'clock, and took tea