back to the east.
Kennedy's instruments showed that a very great magnetic disturbance
was in progress during the auroral displays, and particularly on this
occasion.

Hoadley and Watson set up a line of bamboos, a quarter of a mile
apart and three miles long, on the 20th, and from thence onwards took
measurements for snowfall every fortnight.

On Midwinter's Day the temperature ranged from -38 degrees F. to -25
degrees F. and daylight lasted from 10 A.M. until 4 P.M. We proclaimed a
universal holiday throughout Queen Mary Land. Being Saturday, there were
a few necessary jobs to be done, but all were finished by 11 A.M. The
morning was fine and several of us went down to the floe for skiing, but
after twelve o'clock the sky became overcast and the light was dimmed.
A strong breeze brought along a trail of drift, and at 6 P.M. a heavy
blizzard was in full career. Inside, the hut was decorated with flags
and a savoury dinner was in the throes of preparation. To make the
repast still more appetising, Harrisson, Hoadley and Dovers devised some
very pretty and clever menus. Speeches, toasts and a gramophone concert
made the evening pass quickly and enjoyably.

From this time dated our preparations for spring sledging, which I
hoped would commence about August 15. Jones made some experiments with
"glaxo," of which we had a generous supply. His aim was to make biscuits
which would be suitable for sledging, and, after several failures, he
succeeded in compressing with a steel die a firm biscuit of glaxo and
butter mixed, three ounces of which was the equivalent in theoretical
food value to four and a half ounces of plasmon biscuit; thereby
affording a pleasant variety in the usual ration.

July came in quietly, though it was dull and cloudy, and we were able to
get out on the first two days for work and exercise. On the 2nd a
very fine effect was caused by the sun shining through myriads of
fog-crystals which a light northerly breeze had brought down from the
sea. The sun, which was barely clear of the horizon, was itself a deep
red, on either side and above it was a red mock sun and a rainbow-tinted
halo connected the three mock suns.

On the 5th and 6th the wind blew a terrific hurricane (judged to reach
a velocity of one hundred miles per hour) and, had we not known that
nothing short of an earthquake could move the hut, we should have been
very uneasy.

All were now busy making food-bags, opening and breaking up pemmi