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26th from certain brighter centres. The original 



straight curtain slowly crept round at the S. end 

 until definitely bent in a quadrant >around Mount 

 Erebus on the S.W. side. The N. end remained 

 steady, while the S. end contracted on the 

 mountain. 



18.10 The S. end appeared to touch the mountain, and 

 thereafter the intensity Availed. During this time 

 the curtain had drifted to the E. ; it continued 

 E. until the lower edge reached within 6° of the 

 horizon, then rose a little and brightened up. In 

 its earlier stages several streamers dropped below 

 the curtain, apparently in the vicinity of the 

 mountain; also the curtain appeared to make 

 special displays in the direction of the cone of 

 Mount Erebus. When at its brightest this cur- 

 tain showed a variety of colour. The lower selvage 

 was red, passing .above into yellowish-white, and 

 finally greenish-white. The whole appeared 

 yellower than usual, probably due to twilight. 



19.45 An auroral glow hung over the X. highlands of 

 Ross Island. 



2*2.00 A faint nebulous band 9° up stretching from E.S.E. 

 to E. Watch kept till midnight, and nothing 

 more noted than an auroral haze on the X. high- 

 lands of Ross Island. 

 27th, 1.15 A faint patch 20° up in the X.E. 



2.00 Two parallel bands in the N.E., trending X. by W. 

 2.30 Two faint nebulous bands crossed the sky somewhat 

 E. of the zenith, extending from 25° up in the N. 

 to a point past the zenith in the 8. ; trend, 

 approximately X'. by W. A faint patch of 

 nebula 25° up in the E. by S. ; a few minutes 

 later one main band appeared 45° up in the E., 

 trending as before. 

 4.00 Faint auroral streamers in the E. Much cloud now 

 came over the sky, obscuring observations. Very 

 little aurora in the evening, though a faint haze 

 on the Ross Island highlands. 



22.00 Very faint streamers in the X r .E. 



22.25 Faint auroral streamers in the X.W. 



22.30 A faint streamer 40° up in the E. 



22.35 A very faint disjointed curtain in the E. 

 28th, 1.00 Luminous edge on a cloud low down to the S.E. 

 Minute ice spicules falling from the sky. Sky 

 clouded in the evening. 

 29th. Sky overcast in the morning and thick snowdrift in 



the evening. 

 30th. A thick blizzard, clearing at 22.00. 



31st, 1.00 Auroral streamers of great height rising towards the 

 zenith. A nebulous mass of aurora in the zenith. 

 2.00 Aurora in the W. 

 4.00 Aurora in the X. 



23.00 Medium strong curtains, trending X.X.E. ; one 

 extending from the zenith, the other from 45° up 

 to the E. towards the X. The more easterly one 

 was the stronger. 



24.00 A faint curtain across the zenith, trending X. and S. 



