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contradict them. The plain fact is that no two of our 
storms have been heralded by the same signs. 
The low Barrier temperatures experienced by the 
Crozier Party has naturally led to speculation on the 
situation of Amundsen and his Norwegians. If his 
thermometers continuously show temperatures below 
-6o°, the party will have a pretty bad winter and it 
is difficult to see how he will keep his dogs alive. I 
should feel anxious if Campbell was in that quarter.* 
Saturday , August 5. — The sky has continued to wear a 
disturbed appearance, but so far nothing has come of it. 
A good deal of light snow has been falling to-day ; a brisk 
northerly breeze is drifting it along, giving a very strange 
yet beautiful effect in the north, where the strong red 
twilight filters through the haze. 
The Crozier Party tell a good story of Bowers, who on 
their return journey with their recovered tent fitted 
what he called a 4 tent downhaul ' and secured it round 
his sleeping-bag and himself. If the tent went again, he 
determined to go with it. 
Our lecture programme has been renewed. Last night 
Simpson gave a capital lecture on general meteorology. 
He started on the general question of insolation, giving 
various tables to show proportion of sun's heat received 
at the polar and equatorial regions. Broadly, in latitude 
8o° one would expect about 22 per cent, of the heat 
received at a spot on the equator. 
He dealt with the temperature question by showing 
interesting tabular comparisons between northern and 
* Sec vol. ii.. Dr. Simpson's Meteorological Report. 
