The situation of the crew was only getting worse as they were slowly running out of food and there optimistic outlooks were fading. “But on January 1, it seemed that the New Year might have brought with it a change of luck. Five crabeater seals and an emperor penguin were killed and brought into camp” (Lansing 102). Woohoo! The crew had more food, but with extra food there was also extra excitement. While on the way back from the hunt Orde-Lees became the hunted. It reminded me of something that could be the climax scene for a movie. In fact something similar happened in a good movie called Happy Feet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XkfUM7Hmjg. Luckly Orde-Lees got away from the beast with “sawlike teeth” and when the dinosaur like animal lunged out of the water again Wild came to the rescue and killed it with a rifle. The sea leopard, “measured 12 feet long, and estimated its weight at about 1,100 pounds.” (102) Also Orde-Lees was given the jawbone of the beast as a souvenir and I can imagine himwearing it like an Indian would from Apocalypto. 
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