th was worse, it was deemed advisable to shoot him.

The outer shell of the Magnetograph House was nearly completed,
affording a protection for those who worked on the interior linings.
When completed, the walls and roof consisted of two coverings of tongued
and grooved pine boards and three layers of thick tarred paper.

While there still remained a breach in the wall, Hurley repaired there
with his cinematograph camera and took a film showing the clouds of
drift-snow whirling past. In those days we were not educated in methods
of progression against heavy winds; so, in order to get Hurley and his
bulky camera back to the Hut, we formed a scrum on the windward side and
with a strong "forward" rush beat our formidable opponent.

On March 8 the blizzard died away and a good day followed. All hands
joined in building a solid stone outside of the Magnetograph House. This
piece of work, in which thirty tons of rock were utilized, was completed
on the following day. The wall reached almost to the roof on every side.
The unprotected roof was lagged with sacks and sheep-skins and, after
this had been effected, the hut became practically windtight. The
external covering controlled the influx of cold from the penetrating
winds, and, on the other hand, the conduction of the sun's warmth in
summer. Thus a steady temperature was maintained; a most desirable
feature in a magnetograph house. Webb had the instruments set up in a
few days, and they were working before the end of the month.

After the calm of March 8, the wind steadily increased and became worse
than ever. Madigan, who was in charge of the whale-boat, kept it moored
in the boat-harbour under shelter of the ice-foot. An excursion was made
to the fish traps, buoyed half a mile off shore, on February 8, and it
was found that one had been carried away in the hurricane. The other was
brought in very much battered. That night it was decided at the first
opportunity to haul up the boat and house it for the winter. Alas! the
wind came down again too quickly, increasing in force, with dense drift.
It was still in full career on the 12th, when Madigan came in with
the news that the boat had disappeared. It was no fault of the
rope-attachments for they were securely made and so we were left to
conclude that a great mass of ice had broken away from the overhanging
shelf and carried everything before it.

The regularity of the high-velocity winds was already recognized as
one of