AURORA SEEN SOUTH OF CAPE FAREWELL. 
CHAPTEE XXXV. 
It might be supposed, at first view, that the acces- 
sion of solar light would he accompanied by increase 
of temperature. This, however, was far from being 
the case. Though February had brought back the 
sun, it was the first month throughout which the ice- 
fields remained frozen in their wintery rest. It was 
our coldest month. This eff'ect was due to the great- 
ly increased evaporation; a subject of frequent notice 
in my journal, confirming in this the experience of 
Ermann and other Siberian travelers. 
The renewed alternation of day and night, with 
their increased range of diurnal temperatures, gave us 
in full perfection those different forms of meteoric ex- 
hibition which afi'ect peculiarly the Arctic zone. The 
aurora, with a host of phenomena dependent upon the 
modifications of light, halos, coronse, tangent circles, 
parhelia, anthelia, and paraselense, came to us in rap- 
