i 9 ii] CURIOUS FEATURES OF THE BUZZARD 455 
horizon, and the clouds seemed to be closing down on 
this from time to time. At intervals since, it has lifted, 
showing quite an expanse of clear sky. The general 
appearance is that the disturbance is created by conditions 
about us, and is rather spreading from north to south 
than coming up with the wind, and this seems rather 
typical. On the other hand, this is not a bad snow 
blizzard ; although the wind holds, the land, obscured 
last night, is now quite clear and the Bluff has no mantle. 
[Added in another hand, probably dictated: 
Before we felt any air moving, during our a.m. march 
and the greater part of the previous march, there was 
dark cloud over Ross Sea off the Barrier, which continued 
over the Eastern Barrier to the S.E. as a heavy stratus, 
with here and there an appearance of wind. At the same 
time, due south of us, dark lines of stratus were appearing, 
miraged on the horizon, and while we were camping 
after our a.m. march, these were obscured by banks of 
white fog (or drift ?), and the wind increasing the whole 
time. My general impression was that the storm came 
up from the south, but swept round over the eastern part 
of the Barrier before it became general and included the 
western part where we were.] 
Tuesday, November 7. — Camp 4. The blizzard has 
continued throughout last night and up to this time of 
writing, late in the afternoon. Starting mildly, with 
broken clouds, little snow, and gleams of sunshine, it 
grew in intensity until this forenoon, when there was 
heavy snowfall and the sky overspread with low nimbus 
cloud. In the early afternoon the snow and wind took 
