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and sisters. I thank you all very nnicli. Good ni<^dit." On hiis con- 

 cluding- a very long* talk, of which tlic preceding is the substance, 

 Too-koo-H-too tokl Hall that he had much pleased his hearers, who 

 wished him to talk again He had throughout the speech made fre- 

 quent pauses, so that his interpreters could make him perfectly under- 

 stood. 



The three days which followed the feast had been again days of 

 gale and drift. The meteorological notes of the fourth day of the 

 month read: "This morning the mean of five thermometers is 70° 

 below freezing-point. The registers of three others are rejected. One 

 of them, the longest, indicates over 100° below freezing-point; No. 2 

 registers 110°, and No. 7 w^ill not register more than 77° below the 

 freezing-point. A long and heavy cloud overhung the open water in 

 the Welcome, its vapor looking like steam from a monstrous boiling 

 cauldron." 



On the evening of the 7th, at 8.45, a band of children came run- 

 ning into Hall's Igloo, crying out '■^ Ok-slmm-miing ! Ok-sJium-mung!''' — 

 (Lights very fine.) He thus describes this aurora: When he registered 

 the thermometer at 7 p. m., the sk}^ was clear and cloudless, and there 

 were no evidences of auroral action. At 8.45 there were three belts 

 of aurora extending nearly in straight lines from near the horizon in 

 the southeast up to the zenith, and thence within 40° of the horizon 

 to the northwest. To the southwest there were belts of aurora, com- 

 passing a large portion of the heavens from 15° to 40° above the hori- 

 zon, these belts having contortions or folds like those in the Con- 

 stellation, Draco. A fresh breeze was blowing from the nortli-north- 

 west. Thermometer, 72° below freezing-point; barometer, 30.04. 



