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useless to try and warm the place. The wind was working 
in through the cracks in the snow blocks which we had 
used for baulking outside, and there was no possibility 
of stopping these cracks. I got out and cut up a triangular 
piece outside the door so as to get the roof cloth in under 
the stones, and then packed it down as best I could with 
snow and so blocked most of the drift coming in. Bill 
said the next evening, ' At any rate things look better 
to-night — I think we reached bedrock last night ' — as 
a matter of fact we hadn't by some long way. The igloo 
was naturally very cold, and it blizzed all that night, 
blowing 6. 
The greater part of the next day the wind had 
fallen, and we got all the drift we could find from the 
last night — it wasn't much— and packed in the sides of 
the igloo.] 
The temperature to-day had not been below - 28'3°. 
There had been a southerly wind all day which we had 
felt at all the more exposed parts of the way down to the 
sea ice and in the hollows under the cliffs. It gradually 
freshened in the afternoon and stratus came up from 
the south. At 8 p.m. it was blowing force 6 from the 
S.S.W., but the sky was clear to the N.E. 
Friday J July 21, 1911. — Our first night in the hut 
was comfortable enough, though the breeze freshened 
during the night and increased to force 8, but fell to 5 
in the morning. The only thing we did not quite like 
was the tendency the wind had to lift the canvas roof off 
its supporting sledge — so we piled large slabs of icy snow 
on the canvas top to steady it down and prevent this. 
The temp, ranged from - 20*4^ to - 237°, and though 
