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Macquarii  Sandell

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LEFT  :  HASSELBOROUGH  BAY  ON  THE  RIGHT


^  Macquarii
St     A  VlftjED


Hamilton
ARE  ROYAL  PENGUINS'  ROOKERIES,  FROM  WHICH


BEACH  IN  A  LONO  PEOCESSIOX


LIFE  ON  MACQUARIE  ISLAND

Cooking  was  still  on  the  up  grade.  Everybody,  as  his
turn  arrived,  embarked  on  something  new.  Blake  turned
out  a  magnificent  meat  pudding  during  his  week,  and  Sawyer
manufactured  a  salmon  kedgeree.  Sandell's  treacle  pudding
and  Hamilton's  soda  rolls  and  date  pudding  were  all  equally
good,  while  I  fairly  surpassed  myself  with  a  roly-poly  and
some  pancakes.
Hitherto,  Sawyer  and  Sandell  had  been  coming  down
to  the  Shack  each  night  after  finishing  the  wireless  work,
but  on  account  of  the  bad  weather  they  determined  to  sleep
up  there  and,  with  that  end  in  view,  each  built  a  bunk  for
himself;  Sawyer,  in  the  operating-hut,  had  ample  room  for
the  improvement,  but  Sandell  had  more  difficulty  in  the
engine-hut,  finding  it  necessary  to  add  a  small  structure
to  the  original  one.
Good  wireless  work  was  now  being  done,  and  almost
every  ship  trading  to  eastern  Australian  ports  gave  us  a
"call  up."  Much  difficulty  was  experienced  with  the  mast's
stays,  which  frequently  required  tightening  on  account  of
the  "deadmen"  working  loose  in  the  yielding  peaty  soil.
There  were  seven  stays  required  for  each  mast,  and  Sandell
spent  much  time  in  attending  to  them.
Hamilton  had  found,  some  weeks  previously,  several
nests  of  the  sooty  albatross  along  the  cliff-front  on  the
eastern  side  of  Wireless  Hill,  and  on  the  21st  he  visited  them
for  the  purpose  of  photographing  the  young  in  the  nest.
They  were  still  in  the  downy  stage,  and  vomited  vigorously
on  being  approached.
