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commodity and shall then have to reduce luxuries. But 
we have plenty of seal meat, blubber, and biscuit, and can 
therefore remain for a much longer period if needs be. 
Meanwhile the days are growing shorter and the weather 
colder. 
Saturday, April 1. — The wind yesterday was blowing 
across the Ridge from the top down on the sea to the west : 
very little wind on the eastern slopes and practically none 
at Pram Point. A seal came up in our Bay and was 
killed. Taylor found a number of fish frozen into the sea 
ice — he says there are several in a small area. 
The pressure ridges in Pram Point Bay arc estimated 
by Wright to have set up about 3 feet. This ice has been 
' in ' about ten days. It is now safe to work pretty well 
anywhere south of Hut Point. 
Went to Third Crater (next Castle Rock) yesterday. 
The ice seems to be holding in the near Bay from a 
point near Hutton Rocks to Glacier ; also in the whole 
of the North Bay except for a tongue of open water 
immediately north of the Glacier. 
The wind is the same to-day as yesterday, and the 
open water apparently not reduced by a square yard. I'm 
feeling impatient. 
Sunday, April 2, a.m. — Went round Cape Armitage to 
Pram Point on sea ice for first time yesterday afternoon. 
Ice solid everywhere, except off the Cape, where there are 
numerous open pools. Can only imagine layers of compara- 
tively warm water brought to the surface by shallows. The 
ice between the pools is fairly shallow. One Emperor killed 
off the Cape. Several skuas seen — three seals up in our 
