66 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [July 
slopes of the promontory on our right, all of which looked 
very much nearer than they actually were. The dawn 
on the eastern horizon was also exceptionally fine in 
colour, almost pure carmine in a very broad band, chang- 
ing imperceptibly, but without any intermediate orange 
or yellow, into green and blue above. The peaks of the 
Western Range all caught pink lights reflected from 
the sky, and these shone up against the greyer pink fore- 
glow behind them. None of them caught the actual 
sunlight yet. 
The temp, was low, -55*3° in the morning, -63*2° 
to -61 "8° in the afternoon, and on to the evening, with 
light easterly and north-easterly airs from time to time. 
[Apropos of the cold : we now got low temperatures 
once more, but - 60^ now hardly called for comment ; in 
fact some nights of - 60° we never even inquired the 
temperature.] 
Once we saw a drift swirl suddenly spring into the 
air about 100 ft. high and sweep along the surface for 
a long way before it disappeared. 
After lunch we had interesting views of the formation 
and dispersal of fog banks which formed from time to 
time all along the Hut Point promontory. There appeared 
to be a line along which the cold Barrier air met the 
warmer sea ice air of the north side. Fog resulted, which 
gradually rose and spread, and blotted out all the land 
ahead of us, and then as rapidly dispersed to the south, 
leaving the whole sky and air as clear and bright as 
before. This happened again and again with no 
formation of cloud south of the ridge. 
