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SCOTPS LAST EXPEDITION [March 
from the S.E., with lots of drift. Our anemometer 
registered wind at 84 miles an hour and then broke ; some 
of the squalls after this must have been of hurricane force. 
The dome tent which I had up for magnetic observations 
was blown away, and we never saw a sign of it again. The 
wind eased in the evening, but blew a gale all night. 
A very big sea was breaking on the south shore, the 
spray being carried right across the peninsula, coating 
our hut with ice. During the heavier squalls it was 
impossible to stand. The hut shook a great deal, but 
beyond a few things being shaken off the shelves no 
damage was done. 
The following day was lovely, and we had a fine aurora 
in the evening. An arc of yellow stretched from N.W, to 
N.E., while a green and red curtain extended from the 
N.W. horizon to the zenith. 
On March 27 we launched the ' pram,' which is a 
Norwegian skiff, and tried trawling oft the south shore, 
but did not do very well, our total catch being one sea louse, 
one sea slug, and one spider ; certainly the fishermen, 
Priestley, Browning, and Dickason, had plenty of diflRculties 
to contend with, as the sea ice was forming so fast that 
they were compelled to spend most of their time breaking 
a passage through it. 
March 30. — We had another wonderful aurora display 
this evening. It was like a great curtain of light shaken 
by a wind, the lower edges being a red colour, 
April 9. — The last week has been calm and snowy, 
and young ice is forming very quickly on the south shore, 
but on the north shore where there is more swell the sea 
