PREPARE TO EXPLORE FROBISHER BAY. 255 



wish is to chart the lands around that place within the next 

 month, and even to do much more. Koojesse has promised to go 

 over with me if the weather will permit. 



"I have omitted to mention the 'spot' on the sun that I first 

 saw on the 19th when taking observations. At the moment I 

 thought it was a defect in my sextant glass, but afterward found 

 it to be on the face of old Sol. 



" Twenty minutes before midnight. I have just returned from deck 

 entranced by the fires that are burning in the heavens ! A new 

 play to-night by the aurora — at least so to me. Going up, I saw 

 that the moon was struggling to penetrate, with her borrowed 

 light, the white clouds that enshrouded her. Looking around, I 

 found the heavens covered with petite dancers clothed in white. 

 My powers of description of this peculiar appearance and work- 

 ings of the aurora at this time are inadequate. There is no color 

 in the aurora to-night ; it is simply white, like the world beneath 

 it. 



" Midnight. I have been on deck again. I am now satisfied 

 that I have occasionally seen the aurora during this month in the 

 daytime, when the sun was well up in its course and shining 

 brightly. 



" I now retire to my couch for some refreshing sleep, prepara- 

 tory to making an effort in the morning for commencing the ex- 

 ploration of Frobisher Bay." 



