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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
fJUNB 
The nicknames are as follows : 
James Pigg . . . Keohane 
Bones .... Crean 
Michael .... Clissold 
Snatcher .... Evans (P.O.) 
Jehu 
China 
Christopher . . . Hooper 
Victor .... Bowers 
Snippets (windsucker) 
Nobby .... Lashly 
Friday, June 2. — The wind still high. The drift 
ceased at an early hour yesterday ; it is difficult to account 
for the fact. At night the sky cleared ; then and this 
morning we had a fair display of aurora streamers to the 
N. and a faint arch east. Curiously enough the tem- 
perature still remains high, about + 7 0 . 
The meteorological conditions are very puzzling. 
Saturday, June 3 —The wind dropped last night, 
but at 4 a.m. suddenly sprang up from a dead calm to 
30 miles an hour. Almost instantaneously, certainly 
within the space of one minute, there was a tem- 
perature rise of nine degrees. It is the most 
extraordinary and interesting example of a rise of 
temperature with a southerly wind that I can remember. 
It is certainly difficult to account for unless we imagine 
that during the calm the surface layer of cold air 
is extremely thin and that there is a steep inverted 
gradient. When the wind arose the sky overhead was 
