igii] REMARKABLE AURORA 13 
We had a fine aurora in the south low on the horizon 
as a low curtain and arch, with a very striking orange 
colour all over. 
We made only 2^ miles in the day. [A terrible day. 
I felt absolutely done up at lunch — three frostbitten 
toes on one foot — and heel and one toe on the other — 
burning oil is all that keeps us going now — better night 
however. We are getting into the swing of doing every- 
thing slowly and in mits. 
I have pricked six or seven blisters on fingers to-night.] 
Monday, July 3, 191 1. — The min. temp, for the night 
was - 65"^. The weather was calm to begin with and clear, 
but became gradually overcast all round, starting with 
a few curve-backed storm clouds over Terror. After 
lunch however the sky cleared again completely, and we 
were able to relay by moonlight in the afternoon. We 
had made only miles by daylight in the forenoon 
march, and in the whole day only zh miles. 
The temp, ranged from - 52° to - 58"2°. 
We had a magnificent display of auroral curtains 
between 7.30 p.m. and 8 p.m., during which four-fifths of 
the eastern half of the sky was covered by waving curtains 
right up to the zenith, where they were all swinging round 
from left to right in foreshortened, swaying curtains 
forming a rapidly moving whirl, constantly altering its 
formation. Some of the lower curtains were very brilliant 
and showed bands of orange and green and again orange 
fading into lemon yellow upwards. Bowers noted it as 
follows : ' Remarkably brilliant aurora working from the 
N.E. to the zenith and spreading over two-thirds of the 
