easter instead of being a south. |38 easter as we supposed. Captain Pickels, however, says that a north. easter would have brought colder weather than we had. But the snow shows where the wind blew the hardest. 1 March. Wednesday. Heavily overcast dull day. Thick at midday. Light, powdery snow be- gan to fall at 12:30, but not much fell after all. Calm. Temp. min -18°; 9a. -2°; noon +3°; 3p. -1° Out alone for scant four mile walk around head of bay, following beach ridge from near cache to south coast. Considerable seaweed of several kinds is mingled with the gravel and pebbles of the beach. Came back earlier than I had intended to, the snow begin- ing to fall and the weather so thick that one could see scarcely a half mile