as Musgrave wrote, “which only ceased from time to time to blow again with redoubled fury”—bringing rain and sleet and sometimes snow. “We began to fear the oncoming of winter,” he went on. Awful premonitions of starvation were creeping in on them all, because the behavior of their prey was changing disturbingly. Now the sea lions were much harder to find, let alone catch and kill. Raynal put it down to the fact that seals are migratory animals—an ominous thought in itself—but Musgrave, who thought that it might be because the sea lions were learning that men were to be feared and avoided, urged that the cows and calves in the scrub around Epigwaitt should be left alone as much as possible. Whenever the weather was favorable the men took out the boat to hunt for their prey about the shores and islets of Carnley Harbour. On March 3, George, Alick, and Musgrave discovered a small island, which Musgrave called Figure-of-Eight Island because of its shape; this became a favored hunting ground.
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