The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . AUTUMN, WINTEE, AND SPEING, 1909 last covered with a fine, clean, white sheet, which pleases mevery much. April 9.—The commencement of the month is calm, withoccasional elear-ups. Bongrain has been able to spend a dayon the Argentine Islands surveying, and he has come backwith 150 penguins, whose flesh garnishes the shelves of ourmeat department. In the course of this trip, Frachat andBoland were poisoned under the tent covering the picket-boatby carbonic oxide, the blast pipe hav
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . AUTUMN, WINTEE, AND SPEING, 1909 last covered with a fine, clean, white sheet, which pleases mevery much. April 9.—The commencement of the month is calm, withoccasional elear-ups. Bongrain has been able to spend a dayon the Argentine Islands surveying, and he has come backwith 150 penguins, whose flesh garnishes the shelves of ourmeat department. In the course of this trip, Frachat andBoland were poisoned under the tent covering the picket-boatby carbonic oxide, the blast pipe having been badly it is easy to put this to rights, while suitabletreatment soon set the two victims on their feet again. Thanks to a temperature of — 6°, some new ice is forminground the ship, and the slopes of the island are becoming veryfavourable for tobogganing. We give ourselves up to thissport furiously, and the toboggans which I had brought fromNorway go up and down incessantly. The inequalities of theground and the rapid slope cause a few accidents, but noneare serious. Gain has
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