plot. Duel follows in which both are killed.

Duet: "Mort de Botheo" COUNT and BARON

[All the others rush in. The two lovers come together and the DOCTOR
says, "God bless you, my children."

Chorus: "Auld Lang Syne" COMPANY and AUDIENCE
And
GOD SAVE THE KING

Played by the Society for the Prevention of the Blues.
Saturday, October 12, 1912.
ADELIE HALL

Admission Free. Children Half Price.

October 13 was known as Black Sunday. We were all seated at dinner and
the Hut was quivering in the tornado-like gusts which followed a heavy
"blow" reaching a maximum hourly average of ninety-one miles. One mighty
blast was followed by a crack and the sound of a heavy falling body. For
a moment it was thought that something had happened to the Hut. Then the
messman ran out to the trap-door and saw that the northern wireless mast
had disappeared.

The weather showed but meagre signs of improvement, but the penguins
came up in great numbers. They were in groups all along the ice-foot
in the lee of rocks and icy pinnacles. They climbed up to their old
resorts, and in a few days commenced to build nests of small pebbles.
Skua gulls mysteriously appeared, snow petrels hovered along the rocky
ridges and odd seals landed on the wind-raked harbour ice. Silver-grey
and Antarctic petrels flew along the shore with occasional Cape pigeons.
If the weather were indifferent to the fact, the birds did not forget
that spring had come.

A Weddell seal calved on the bay-ice on October 18. For a week the pup
had a miserable time in winds ranging mostly about the seventies, with
the temperature below zero Fahrenheit. At last it became so weak that
it thawed a hole in the soft, sludgy ice and could not extricate itself.
Both it and the mother were killed and skinned for the biological
collection.

On all but the worst days a gang of men worked with picks and shovels
digging out the Hangar, so that Bickerton could test the air-tractor
sledge. The attack was concentrated upon a solid bank of snow and ice
into which heaps of tins and rubbish had been compactly frozen. In soft
snow enormous headway can be made in a short space of time, but in that
species of conglomerate, progress is slow. Eventually, a cutting was
made by which the machine could pass out. The rampart of snow was broken
through at the north