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They mainly appear, however, in the southern part of 

 the sky. 



" Friday, October 19th. A fresh breeze from E.S.E. 

 Drifting northward at a good pace. Soon we shall prob- 

 ably have passed the long-looked-for 82°, and that will not 

 be far from 82" 27', when the Frani will be the vessel that 

 will have penetrated farthest to the north on this globe. 

 But the barometer is falling; the wind probably will not 

 remain in that quarter long, but will shift round to the 

 west. I only hope for this once the barometer may prove 

 a false prophet. I have become rather sanguine ; things 

 have been going pretty well for so long ; and October, a 

 month which last year's experience had made me dread, 

 has been a month of marked advance, if only it doesn't 

 end badly. 



" The wind to-day, however, was to cost a life. The 

 mill, which had been repaired after the mishap to the 

 cog-W'heel the other day, was set going again. In the 

 afternoon a couple of the puppies began fighting over a 

 bone, when one of them fell underneath one of the cog- 

 wheels on the axle of the mill, and was dragged in be- 

 tween it and the deck. Its poor little body nearly made 

 the whole thing come to a standstill ; and, unfortunately, 

 no one was on the spot to stop it in time. I heard the 

 noise, and rushed on deck; the puppy had just been 

 drawn out nearly dead ; the whole of its stomach was 

 torn open. It gave a faint whine, and was at once put 

 out of its misery. Poor little frolicsome creature ! Only a 



