. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. WALRUS-HOLE. perceived by comparing one day with its fellow of sometime back. We still read the thermometer at noondaywithout a light, and the black masses of the hills areplain for about five hours with their glaring patchesof snow; but all the rest is darkness. Lanterns arealways on the spar-deck, and the lard-lamps never ex-tinguished below. The stars of the sixth magnitudeshine out at noonday. Except upon the island of Spitzbergen, which has DARKNESS. 143 the advantages of an insular clima
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. WALRUS-HOLE. perceived by comparing one day with its fellow of sometime back. We still read the thermometer at noondaywithout a light, and the black masses of the hills areplain for about five hours with their glaring patchesof snow; but all the rest is darkness. Lanterns arealways on the spar-deck, and the lard-lamps never ex-tinguished below. The stars of the sixth magnitudeshine out at noonday. Except upon the island of Spitzbergen, which has DARKNESS. 143 the advantages of an insular climate and tempered byocean currents, no Christians have wintered in so higha latitude as this. They are Russian sailors who makethe encounter there, men inured to hardships and cannot help thinking of the sad chronicles of the early. NOONDAY IN N O V E M E3 E R. Dutch, who perished year after year, without leaving acomrade to record their fate. Our darkness has ninety days to run before we shallget back again even to the contested twilight of , our winter will have been sunless for onehundred and forty days. 144 THE COLD INCREASING. It requires neither the Ice-foot with its grow-ing ramparts, nor the rapid encroachments of thenight, nor the record of our thermometers, to por-tend for us a winter of unusual severity. Themean temperatures of October and September arelower than those of Parry for the same months atMelville Island. Thus far we have no indicationsof that deferred fall cold which marks the insularclimate. November 9, Wednesday.—Wishing to get the alti-tude of the cliffs on the southwest cape of our baybefore the darkness set in thoroughly, I started in timeto reach them with my Nemoundlanders at it was but a short journey, the rough shore-ice and a shght wind rendered
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