CHAPTER XXV 
THE SUN COMES BACK 
January 25 was a day of rejoicing, because 
it marked the return of the sun, after seventy- 
one days. The sun was only rather indistinctly 
visible, half a disc above the ice, to the south, at 
noon, but from now on every day would be a little 
longer than the day before. It was the fourth 
time I had seen the sun come back in the Arctic 
and this time was the one which gave me the great¬ 
est satisfaction, because so much depended on our 
getting good daylight. 
We celebrated by a little feast and some good 
singing in the evening. We had had a couple of 
cases of canned oysters on deck when the Karhik 
was struck and while I was waiting for the ship to 
go down on the eleventh I had found two tins of 
these oysters in the galley; the cook had brought 
them in to thaw them out. I threw the cases over¬ 
board on the ice where they broke and scattered 
tins of oysters around. We dug in the drifting 
snow and found this treasure trove and on this 
evening we had the oysters in soup and otherwise, 
and then had a “sing.” 
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