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Hale
1960
Journal
Nov. 1
a rock to dry skins on over the stove.
Then began skinning an Emperor penguin.
Don Douglas did m 2 of those we
corralled the yesterday evening. Keith wins
checked them for live. The skinning
took all afternoon & evening with an
hour or so out to write letters & let
the blood in the carcass clot. Callin
Bailey skinned one bird & I the
other.
Nov. 2
Hallett Station, Antarctica.
Wrote up above notes & walked over
to Stenay. Spent 2 hours there &
catched a ride back at 12 with
Gordon Cartwright and Charles Trainor.
After lunch cleaned the 2 penguin skins
& salted them. This took the bulk of the
afternoon. After supper put up the
penguin skins I picked up yesterday.
A little too dehydrated but it made a
fair skin.
Nov. 3
Hallett Station, Antarctica.
Spent morning writing letters and other
rds & ends. In afternoon watched from
hillside in Stenay from 1:30 to 5.
After supper helped Keith were re erect
the net frames also circled over to Stenay
to pick up my camera which I had left