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We have also been experimenting on a blubber reading- 
lamp and are, I think, on a fair way to success. 
March 16. — Blowing hard all day, very cold. Our 
bags and all gear are covered with drift. The outlook is 
not very cheerful. We are evidently in for a winter here, 
under very hard conditions. When we can be out and 
working things are not so bad, but lying in our bags covered 
with drift, with nothing to do but speculate as to what has 
happened to the ship, is depressing. We are using salt 
water in our hoosh and some bleached and decayed sea- 
weed from a raised beach, which we try to imagine is like 
cabbage. Priestley says he would not object to fresh 
seaweed, but cannot induce himself to include prehistoric 
seaweed in our regular ration. 
March 17. — Still blowing, but clear, so after breakfast 
we struck camp, and started carrying our gear to the hut. 
The distance is only i mile, but over a chaos of big boulders 
which are the cause of many falls. Our boots have given 
out and finnesko would not last a day on such surface. 
Before we had got all our gear over, it came on to blow 
harder than ever, the squalls bringing small pebbles along 
with them, and we were several times taken off our feet 
and blown down. 
Luckily no one was damaged, although we all got 
pretty well frostbitten. It was a great relief to get into 
our finished hut out of the wind. 
We were all dead tired, and turned in directly after 
hoosh. 
March 18. — Our first night in the hut was cold, as we 
have no door yet and no insulation ; in fact, it will take at 
