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morning ; then there was a dinner of three or four 

 courses and ' Fram wine/ otherwise lime-juice, coffee 

 afterwards with ' Fram cake.' In the evening pine apple, 

 cake, figs, bananas, and sweets. We go off to bed 

 feeling that we have over-eaten ourselves, while half a 

 gale from the S.E. is blowing us northwards. The mill 

 has been going to-day, and though the real sun did not 

 come to the festival, our saloon sun lighted up our table 

 both at dinner and supper. Great face-w T ashing in 

 honour of the day. The way we are laying on flesh is 

 getting serious. Several of us are like prize pigs, and 

 the bulge of cook Juell's cheeks, not to mention another 

 part of his body, is quite alarming. I saw him in profile 

 to-day, and wondered how he would ever manage to 

 carry such a corporation over the ice if we should have 

 to tarn out one of these fine days. Must begin to 

 think of a course of short rations now. 



"Wednesday, February 2ist. The south wind con- 

 tinues. Took up the bag-nets to-day which were put 

 out the day before yesterday. In the upper one, which 

 hung near the surface, there were chiefly amphipodse ; 

 in Murray's net, which hung at about 50 fathoms depth, 

 there was a variety of small crustacese and other small 

 animals shining with such a strong phosphorescence that 

 the contents of the net looked like glowing embers as I 

 emptied them out in the cook's galley by lamplight. 

 To my astonishment the net-line pointed north-west, 

 though from the wind there ought to be a good northerly 



