Hi VOYAGE OUTWARD. 



nately pressed alon<>; the thing in which he securely sits, re- 

 gardless of wave or wind. The jacket they wear is lashed 

 so as to prevent the admission of water, whilst all is snug- 

 within. Their fishing tackle and darts are so placed as to 

 be constantly within reach, and safe from accident, by a 



rapidly upwards, and spent themselves in the more elevated regions of 

 the atmosphere. 



iMarch 31 : ther. 43°, 44°, 40° : wind S. by AV., strong gale : scud 

 flying furiously along : in the course of this day the weather has been 

 highly variable, and sometimes rain : the change of wind was pre- 

 indicated by the aui'ora of tlie preceding. 



April 1 : ther. 33° throughout: wind W.N.W., hard gale: sky 

 uniformly overcast with cirrostratus : the gale increasing in fury, 

 the sea rose literally mountain high : proceUaria glacialis : moon in 

 halo of vivid brightness. 



April 2: ther. 34°, 35°, 36°: wind W.N.W., hard gale: storm 

 unabated : cloud beginning to break : procellaria glacialis. 



April 3 : ther. 42°, 44°, 40° : wind S.W., strong gale : overcast 

 cirrostratus : less dense, long, dark beds of the same, sometimes seen 

 through, moving slowly from S.E. : sun very dimly seen in corona: 

 some rain fell : sea higher, if possible, than yesterday : tlie zenith, 

 clearing a little in the afternoon, admitted a view of linear, comoid, 

 and undulate cirrus, pointing south of east : cloud becoming cumu- 

 lescent.* 



^ This night, as tiie clouds of the cirrocuniuhis form drifted along, a similar 

 radiation to that noticed in Journal 29th ult. occurred. A stream of the 



