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numbers at our arrival, also began to get scarce. 
Mr. Bernacchi and Mr. Colbeck completed on this 
date their magnetic observatory in the large Finn 
tent,. which was secured by stays of варе Tbe 
meteorological observatory, some 3oo yards away 
from the huts, was also completed by this date. 
On the 15th March we saw the first Aurora 
Australis; it had the form of curtains waving from 
south towards east. On the 17th we brought up 
the last bags of coal. On the 18th we prepared a 
preliminary expedition to the top of Cape Adare, 
whence I hoped to be able to reach the inner part 
of Robertson Bay. Already the first night came on 
with a hurricane. Mr. Fougner, Mr. Colbeck, and 
myself had cold and anxious hours, fighting hard 
not to be blown over the cliffs with all our outfit. 
The hurricane blew in fierce squalls with snow-drift, 
and as the weather continued bad I decided to 
return to the camp. On Monday we reached Camp 
Ridley, where I found that we had lost one of our 
boats. It had been lifted bodily up from the beach 
and smashed against the rocks. At Camp Ridley the 
wind had a velocity of eighty-seven miles per hour. 
The Finns were busily engaged in making fur 
suits out of seal-skin, as I found that skin and fur is 
the only clothing which keeps the cold out on windy 
days; and on calm days the Jaeger suits were the 
most suitable. Robertson Bay now began to freeze. 
The days were spent in daily meteorological obser- 
vations, which were taken every second hour, and 
whenever clear weather permitted astronomical obser- 
vations were made. The magnetic work went on 
whenever the magnetic conditions were favourable ; 
