href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@43608@[email protected]#page181" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">181; open-air exercise, 181; inconvenience from drip, 182; fluctuations of temperature, 183; movement of the ice, 184; celebration of birthdays, 185; bill of fare, 185; fresh meat, 186; Divine service, 187; medical inspections, 187; tabogganing, 187; Nellie, 189; a lost dog, 190.

Chapter XVI. An Arctic Christmas.

Preparations for Christmas Day, 193; Christmas presents, 194; Christmas Day, 195; retrospect, 197; frost-bite patients, 198; precautions against frost-bite, 199; the Palæocrystic Sea, 200; a brilliant meteor, 200.

Chapter XVII. A Happy New Year.

New Year’s Day, 202; mustard and cress, 205; heavy snow-drifts, 206; returning light, 207; severe cold, 208; an alarm in the observatory, 209; condition of the Eskimo dogs, 210; Nellie and the lemmings, 212; Rawson’s snow hut, 212; the last school meeting, 213; the last dramatic performance, 214; the last “pop,” 215; grand palæocrystic sledging chorus, 216.

Chapter XVIII. Return of the Sun.

Cairn Hill, 220; the sun’s return, 221; intense cold, 223; experiments on various substances during extreme cold, 223; daylight, 225; alarm of fire, 226; dismantling the observatories, 227; the sledge-crews exercised, 228; a wolf, 229.

Chapter XIX. Details of Sledge Travelling.

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