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some one. They had all abandoned their offspring at sight of 

 the visiting members of the Australasian Association ! 



On the 2nd May we held our first football match. The 

 game was " Soccer," and curious was the composition of the 

 teams. There was little five-foot Anton, our Russian groom, 

 who knew no English and probably had never seen a football. 

 Somewhat of a contrast were Crean and Taff Evans, about six 

 feet high, and two of the biggest men in the navy. Moreover, 

 Evans was a noted Welsh player. Wright's knowledge was 

 based on ice hockey. I had played rugger in 1905, and now 

 found that the rules differed considerably. Atkinson was our 

 star player, though Gran had played football for Norway. 



We played on the sea ice in North Bay, which was still 

 badly cracked, and not very thick, so that there was a chance 

 of our game being a moving one in several senses ! 



I dare not give my opinion of the game. Every one 

 seemed to be offside ; the more so the better. I followed 

 hard on the ball, which later I was told was inadvisable. 

 Anton got one idea into his head, and merrily kicked the ball 

 to the middle of the field wherever he happened to be. At half- 

 time a blizzard started, and helped our side materially. I had 

 on windproof jersey and singlet, but as there was forty degrees 

 of frost I did not get particularly hot. In fact, I could feel 

 my arm " going " every time I stopped running, which was 

 unfortunate, for I had a collision with Crean which took the 

 last of my wind. Scott was playing just behind me, and was 

 very urgent that I should follow him up, but grinned cheer- 

 fully when I said I was too winded ! The blizzard nearly 

 blew the ball off the ice. It rose to forty miles per hour, but 

 there was little drift, and it stopped when it couldn't help our 

 side, so naturally we won by three goals to nil ! 



Lectures alternated with football, so that next day we 

 heard a very interesting lecture from Dr. Simpson. 



LECTURE ON METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS. 



By Dr. Simpson. 



June 3, 191 1. 



On the 3rd June Simpson described very clearly the various 

 meteorological instruments in use at Cape Evans. He illustrated his 



