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covered the entrance, made a big fire in the stove, 
and soon the place was covered with hot, moist 
steam. Here he completely undressed and remained 
thus for about an hour, just as people take steam 
baths in the luxuriously furnished baths in a European 
city. Still it was a remarkable feature that it was 
about 60° of frost above this icy steam bath. They 
(the Finns) seemed to thrive well, and accustomed 
to the dark time from the north, their minds did not 
seem to suffer much. 
On December 27th the report from the top 
was to the effect that no ice was to be seen 
towards the north, not even through the telescope. 
Towards the north-west and also towards the west, 
much ice was however in view. Along the beaches 
of our peninsula it was getting un afe for travelling. 
Several young penguins were out of their shells, 
and Mr. Evans, who had taken over Mr. Hanson’s 
department, collected specimens of the young ones 
from day to day in order to сес sie Senes im 
their growth. Mr. Fougner secured a magnificent 
specimen of a jellyfish. When I went to the top 
of the cape I caught some very fine specimens of 
young skuagulls. 
New Years Day broke bright and clear with 
the Union Jack flying merrily at the flag-staff. 
We turned our shirts in the morning. We looked 
back with sentiments of pardonable pride on the 
work accomplished by us during the year just sped, 
feeling that as the young century was rising above 
the horizon like the sun after the long Arctic night, 
so was the light of knowledge illuminating the 
hidden mysteries of the last Zerra incognita on the 
