CHAPTER XV. 
ARCTIC OBSERVATIONS — TRAVEL TO OBSERVATORY — ITS HAZARDS 
_ARCTIC LIFE-THE DAY-THE DIET-THE AMUSEMENTS—THE 
LABORS-THE TEMPERATURE-THE “EIS-FOD”-THE ICE-BELT— 
THE ICE-BELT ENCROACHING — EXPEDITION PREPARING — GOOD¬ 
BYE-A SURPRISE — A SECOND GOOD-BYE. 
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“ March 7, Tuesday.—I have said very little in this 
business journal about our daily Arctic life. I have 
had no time to draw pictures. 
“ But we have some trials which might make up a 
day’s adventures. Our Arctic observatory is cold be¬ 
yond any of its class, Kesan, Pulkowa, Toronto, or even 
its shifting predecessors, Bossetop and Melville Island. 
Imagine it a term-day, a magnetic term-day. 
« The observer, if he were only at home, would be the 
‘observed of all observers.’ He is clad in a pair of 
seal-skin pants, a dog-skin cap, a reindeer jumper, and 
walrus boots. He sits upon a box that once held a 
transit instrument. A stove, glowing with at least a 
bucketful of anthracite, represents pictorially a heating 
apparatus, and reduces the thermometer as near as may 
