19X1] BOWERS' METEOROLOGICAL RECORD ii 
and then on again the same thing : turned right over, 
froze in and got a little sleep. Feet liable to go. One 
big toe went and I don't know for how long.] 
Saturday, July i, 191 1. — ^We turned out at 7.30 a.m. 
No dawn was visible, but at 10.45 a.m., when we got 
away, we were able to relay by daylight, and continued 
so until 3 P.M. After lunch we relayed by candle lamp 
from 4.15 P.M. to 7.45 P.M. The surface was like sand, 
and so heavy that we could only slowly move one sledge 
along. Subsidences very frequent all day. We made 
only miles in all. [Bill and Birdie very unselfish and 
helpful— impossible to wear glasses and so I am handi- 
capped.] 
Between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. there was a very fine aurora, 
large beams making very extensive curtains from E. to S. 
up to an altitude of 45°, and with characteristic black sky 
beneath the arches. The colour was a very orange yellow, 
Erebus smoke has been difficult to see, no long stream 
of smoke, but very small puffs apparently going eastward 
each day. 
The min. temp, last night was - 69°, and to-day we 
had -66*6° in the morning and -60*5° at 10 p.m. Light 
south-easterly airs and north-easterly airs during the 
march, at these temperatures, forced us all to adjust 
our noseguards. 
Note. — All the temperatures and weather notes in 
this Report are taken directly from Bowers' record. 
Bowers also made himself responsible for the sledgemeter 
records, and for notes on the condition of the ice on Ross 
Sea when we were at Cape Crozier. He also kept full 
