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looked with his naked eye for a considerable time, 
but could see neither fire nor smoke. On Fougner's 
advice he asked the doctor for a pair of field glasses ; 
whereupon the doctor, in his ordinary calm and sedate 
manner, handed him a gun-case and informed him 
that “Mount Sabine was in activity every rst of 
April" In the evening the doctor had the best of 
us all by telling us that it was his birthday, at which 
we all made a lot of him and found it a welcome 
excuse for extra rations, 
On the 2nd April a gale was blowing at the rate 
of eighty-two miles an hour, with heavy snow-drift. 
On the 5th April a good deal of snow fell and the 
peninsula was for the time being completely covered. 
On the 7th 
Ajri, about 2 
in the morning, 
a gale started 
again from the 
SJE, All the 
snow was swept 
from the penin- 
sula. The snow 
squalls which 
plunged down 
from the cape 
wrapped Camp 
Ridley in a 
dense whirl of 
snow-drift ; the 
dogs were completely buried. The ice in the bay was 
ground up, and waves of snow, ice, and water dashed 
up against our beach, and sent the spray flying over 
A WEDDELLII SEAL. 
