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Updated: May 6, 2025
Karl, however, was not frightened by the sea-elephant's rage, but with a single swinging blow from his harpoon on the snout stretched it lifeless on the ground, when all were better able to appreciate its enormous size. Its girth alone exceeded sixteen feet, and the animal appeared all the more imposing when dead than alive.
We encountered also some gentoo penguins and a young sea-elephant, which Worsley killed. When we got back to the cave at 3 p.m., tired, hungry, but rather pleased with ourselves, we found a splendid meal of stewed albatross chicken waiting for us. We had carried a quantity of blubber and the sea-elephant's liver in our blouses, and we produced our treasures as a surprise for the men.
He was rather annoyed at having his special contrivance sneered at, for it was only after repeated attempts and failures that the building party had at last managed to rig up a fireplace against the back wall of the shanty running up through the roof of the "general" room a chimney-shaft of loosely piled stones, enclosed within a framework of planks to which was nailed on the sea-elephant's skin in order to prevent the wood from catching fire.
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