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nts and over southern part day. [53]
Wind seems now to come from N. or N.E.
a bad day to be out! On board all day.
Toward evening air became thicker, and
by evening 8 o'clock a heavy storm of wind
was raging, coming in from the westward.
The night is worse than the day -
Dinner: baked roast mutton (cooked
too much as usual), turnip- and-potato,
string beans, bread, butter, rice pudding
with raisins, tea.
Breakfast: Fried bacon and eggs (1 a piece)
baked beans, bread, butter, coffee -
13 March. Monday.
Heavy snow, southerly gale,
regular blizzard in fact. Much worse
than yesterday. As bad as 23 February.
Temp. min +9°; 9a +14½°; 12m +6°
was +25° at 6 a.m.