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It had been quite calm all the afternoon, and Atkinson went 

 off to catch fish. We caught a whole one, and the weather 

 was so warm (only 18 of frost) that he was still moving when 

 we reached the hut ! This weather lasted till 5.15 p.m. 

 Then in two minutes the wind rose from calm to forty-five 

 miles per hour with snowdrifts like driving rain. 



Next day we went out to a new hole cut in the 3-feet ice. 

 There was a forty-mile blizzard, but as there was no drift we 

 got out to the hole easily enough, though as it was drifted 

 over we had to be careful not to fall in. Our huge hopes 

 from the new ground resulted in three fish ! We had much 

 more rope to haul in and found it rather hard work. 

 Atkinson was much amused by the old yarn of the Irishman's 

 remark while hauling up his mate : " Hold on, Mike, while I 

 spit on my hands ! ' This was apropos of my having to stop 

 hauling to warm my nose. Atch's went further, and he 

 had to stay outside the hut until the pringling subsided ! 



Dr. Bill gave us a fine lecture on sketching, illustrated by 

 numerous samples of his own and by copious allusions to the 

 trials of the budding artists in the hut ! He pointed out that 

 one aspirant had done a fine sketch of an iceberg with a 

 splendid reflection showing in stormy water. I backed up 

 my unfortunate colleague by showing Bill a portrait I had 

 made of himself, which turned out " handsome " instead of 

 "life-like." 



LECTURE ON SKETCHING. 



By Dr. Wilson. 



May 31, 191 1. 



Sketching down here is very different from this class of work else- 

 where. We are limited in our tools, being confined to pencil and 

 chalks ; and even with these we can only finish a sketch on the field 

 in mid-summer. 



Accuracy rather than the making of pictures should be our aim in 

 Antarctica, especially as our sketches are largely connected with 

 scientific work. Nothing can be done with colour, though on the 

 1902 expedition I carried forty coloured crayons and tried to use them 

 out of doors. Nansen, however, managed to do some useful crayon 

 drawings in the Arctic. 



My method is to make pencil drawings in as great detail as the 



