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could not help igniting an empty paraffin barrel in 
honour of the occasion. 
On June 4th I had the thermograph placed 
2000 ft. up оп Cape: Adare 107 the purpose “or 
getting an opportunity to compare the curves at 
different heights. 
At 6 o'clock in the morning of the 14th june 
in complete darkness, I had to climb to the top of 
Cape Adare, and brought the thermograph down. 
It was very cold, and I had bad attacks of vomiting. 
The darkness made it very difficult for me to pick 
my way, and as the barometer was low I was 
anxious to reach camp as early as possible, for 
if I had been overtaken by a gale in those heights, 
without the aid of daylight, it would probably have 
been fatal. 
The very next day, the 15th, a tremendous gale 
started in the morning, and prevented all but one 
morning reading. It started while Hanson was half- 
way between the thermometer screen and the camp, 
and he had great difficulty in reaching the hut. Mr. 
Evans and Mr. Bernacchi attempted to reach the 
screen in vain. They had to crawl back on all fours, 
and arrived in camp exhausted, Mr. Bernacchi with 
his hand badly frost-bitten. Later on I myself made 
a further attempt to reach the screen in company with 
one of the Finns by crawling along on all fours, but 
found it impossible to keep the safety lantern alight, 
as it blew out immediately we took it from the cover of 
our fur coats, and without its light we could not have 
read the observations, even had we been able to reach 
the screen. By evening the wind was blowing with the 
force of eighty-five miles an hour, roaring and tearing 
