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will shift round to the west. I only hope for this once 

 the barometer may prove a false prophet. I have 

 become rather sanguine ; things have been going pretty 

 well for so long ; and October, a month which last year's 



ON THE AFTER-DECK OF THE " FRAM ' (OCTOBER, 1894). 



(From a Photograph.) 



experience had made me dread, has been a month of 

 marked advance, if only it doesn't end badly. 



1 he wind to-clay, however, was to cost a life. The 

 mill, which had been repaired after the mishap to the 



