142 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
Wednesday, 6th. — Nothing occurred for some 
time past worthy of particular notice, except the 
gradual change in the state of the weather, which 
is getting colder every day: at four this morning, 
the thermometer was as low as eight degrees below 
zero. But we have now got the housing over the 
ships, so that the increased severity of the weather 
is not felt in the least on board, nor does it, indeed, 
put us to any inconvenience in our excursions on 
shore, except when there is a breeze of wind, 
which, as I have already remarked, renders the 
cold Jess tolerable to our feelings, although it raises 
the thermometer; but I may, perhaps, be going 
too far in saying, that it increases the temper- 
ature. Probably, a corresponding change taking 
place in the temperature of the atmosphere 
whenever a breeze of wind comes on, so many 
instances of it have now come under our obsery- 
ation, that we already begin to consider it asa 
general rule. Several deer have been seen during 
these five or six days past, but we were not fortu- 
nate enough to kill any of them : to-day, however, 
one of them, which happened to come close to 
the ships, was shot from the Griper; it weighed 
170 lbs. 
Saturday, 9th. — Although the sun has not yet 
entirely left us, we now receive but little benefit 
from it, either in the way of heat or light; for ever 
since the housing has been put over the ships, we 
have been obliged to use candles the whole day, or 
properly speaking, as long as our allowance of 
these necessary articles last, which, I am sorry to 
say, is very inadequate, being only one candle 
