The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . o summer campaigns of 1904 and1905 so unpleasant and difficult, not to say dangerous. Exceptat Wandel, where the wind, however, blew with comparativelylittle force and where for one day there was a drizzle of snow,the winds of this region have not been really violent andhave been accompanied always by clear weather. Eitherwe are enjoying an exceptional summer or previously weexperienced two very bad ones. The sunset this evening has been very fine, touching upwith a fairy pink the
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . o summer campaigns of 1904 and1905 so unpleasant and difficult, not to say dangerous. Exceptat Wandel, where the wind, however, blew with comparativelylittle force and where for one day there was a drizzle of snow,the winds of this region have not been really violent andhave been accompanied always by clear weather. Eitherwe are enjoying an exceptional summer or previously weexperienced two very bad ones. The sunset this evening has been very fine, touching upwith a fairy pink the crenellated tops of our glacier. Quiteclose to us an iceberg of tabular shape is stranded, barelydetached from the cliff. The place can be seen which it occu-pied evidently but a short while ago. It is interesting forglaciological examination, and Gourdon begins at once tomeasure it and lake soundings at its foot. If it were to goadrift we should see for the first time a table-berg as com-paratively small as this coming from an ice-cliff. Up to now,indeed, all the many cliffs near which wo have stayed havein. THE SUMMER OF 1908-19 09 been cleft, thus launching on the sea large quantities of frag-ments of small dimensions or giving birth to ice-blocks danger-ous to the ship but tiny compared with the icebergs to bemet in such numbers, which must come from formations afterthe style of the great Ross Barrier. January 20.—The wind having grown much milder, thebarometer showing a tendency to rise, and the weather beingchar, we set off with the intention of following the coast andin the vague hope of finding winter quarters. We get awayfrom the pack-ice without difficulty, for a southerly currentprevails which seems permanent. We stop abreast of JennyTsland, where Senouque goes to fetch the stand of his theo-dolite, which he left behind. Meanwhile, we make a long• hedge, which promises work for Liouville and Gain. But the snow begins to fall heavily and the wind strengthensagain
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