In The Antarctic

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 216, 12 October 1929, Page 5

In The Antarctic

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Australian Press Association.

SOME SUDDEN CHANGES Air Filled With Xc© Crystals A LAND OF MIST AND CLOUD.,

IBeceived This Da.v. Noom.

BAY OF WHALES Oct. 10. For days we have been living in a land of mist and cloud, where the outlines are vague and uncertain and the white eurface underfoot cannot be seen One may stumble over a lump of snow or the edges of Zastrugi or step suddenly down a decline, There are 110 shadows, only diffused light which reveals aiothing in detail, although dimly one may see in the distance forms of ice pushed up in the great qneven ridges.or the nehulous line of the barrier cliff. During the last two daj's it has been warm, bringing in moist air from the sea and Hfting the t'enrneraturfe higher than it has been in weeks. Yesterday afternoon it was four degrees below zero and then the wind shifted to the soiith and 111 a few minutes the whole canopy of eloud hegan to dtsanpear. The therniometer drooped suddenly and the. air was filled with ice crystals which pattered against one's face like rain. Bv Russell Oweu. capyright, 1929, by the New York Times CVimpany and throuehout the world. Wireless hv the St. Fost' Louis Despateh. All rights for puhlication reserved New York Times.