AUGUST, 1 91 1 continued. 

 August 27th, 1911. 



8 a.m. Calm. Overcast. Barometer rising. Temperature risen 8. 



2 p.m. Calm. Overcast but clearing from the W. Temperature falling. Barometer rising 

 slowly. A brilliant sun-dog to the left of the sun, with about 15 of arc of a halo of 22 

 showing through it. Rainbow colours with the red colours passing through it. To the 

 right of the sun is dense Nimbus, and it is through the thin haze on the outside of this, 

 which causes the sun-dog, that the sun is shining. The cloud is continued to sea level to 

 S. and E. of us by a snow fog, but no snow is falling at camp, although the fog partially 

 veils Cape Adare. 



8 p.m. S.E. wind of force 1 or more in gusts to calm. Clear but rather hazy. 



Temperature risen 12 since 4 p.m. Barometer rising slowly but steadily. 



August 28th, 1911. 



8 a.m. Westerly wind varying in force during the night from 2 to 0. Overcast. Barometer 

 risen a little. Temperature steady. 



2 p.m. Sky becoming hazy and overcast. Sun-dog to right of sun, Nimbus to left. Calm. 

 Temperature falling slowly. Barometer steady. 



8 p.m. Calm. Cloudy. Thick to S. with Nimbus haze. Glaciers obscured. Stratus and 

 frost-smoke to N. Temperature and barometer steady. 



August 29th, 1911. 



8 a.m. Calm. Overcast. Thickest to N. and W. Heavy frost-smoke to N.W. moving slowly 

 from the E. and S. Glaciers obscured. Barometer fallen. Temperature fallen 8. 



2 p.m. Calm. Overcast except near the zenith and hazy everywhere. Glaciers obscured. 

 |-inch of granular snow has fallen to-day as fine grains smaller than a pin's head. Barometer 

 and temperature steady. 



8 p.m. Calm. Overcast with haze, thinnest near the zenith, where stars show dimly. Slight 

 spicular snow falling. Moon was surrounded at 7 p.m. by a faint halo of 22. The 

 sky cleared a good deal before 6 p.m., but has again become overcast since then. Tem- 

 perature and barometer steady. 



August 3Qth, 1911. 



8 a.m. Calm. Cloudy. An Alto-stratus radiant with the radiant point N.W. Barometer 

 fallen. Temperature steady. 



2p.m. Calm. Cloudy. Scud moving from the S.E. The sky cleared a good deal during 

 the morning. Temperature steady and normal. Barometer steady to rising. 



While walking this morning Abbott called my attention to whirlwinds of drift moving 

 fairly slowly off the N. end of the cliff. 



The air beneath was full of ice fragments. A short time afterwards we saw drift 

 moving rapidly along the sea-ice from the S.E. , and beyond the Sisters we walked into a 

 breeze of force 5 to 6. It has remained calm all the morning at camp. 



Levick reports a trail of cloud from Mt. Minto towards the S.E. at the summit of the 

 mountain. At present there is a slight cap on Cape Adare and a low-lying fog from Warning 

 Glacier into the bay. 



6 p.m. During the afternoon whirlwinds of snow came rushing down the sides of the Cape and 

 across the lakes ; a rushing sound was heard and reported from behind the Cape. At the 

 6 o'clock observations the noise behind the Cape could be heard, and the Cape itself was 

 covered with a thick mist, also to the S.E. was black, the clearest part being about W.S.W. 

 to the W, There was a wind of force I from the W. (H. D.) 



6.30 p.m. Browning reports a wind from the N.W., force 3 to 4, with snow and drift. 



(F. V. B.) 



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