The Winter Night. 



2 I 



nothing of any consequence ; just a few buckets of ice 

 that had to be hewn away every month from the bottom 

 of the ship and hoisted up. 



From ei\ 



THE THERMOMETER HOUSE. 



[Photograph. 



To these varied employments was presently added, 

 as the most important of all, the taking of scientific 

 observations, which gave many of us constant occu- 



