on board after 20-30 minutes [159] if I, but I had on my net[sha] as well as my bearskins so that I was come fortable in spite of the keen and in- cresing wind and the wind driving snow. After 1/4 hour I too had had enough. Although the sky was almost clear overhead the air was so full of driving snow that at times the vessel was com- pletely hidden at 1/4 mile away. I came on board as Charlie was coming aft and he surprised me by saying that both my cheeks were white. Surely enough [had been] a spot in each [[was] frost[ed] by the biter wind. The snow is wet on the ice. the starboard quarter, the ice being bent by the weight of the banked up snow. MacDougal had become well enough this afternoon to go to his dinner.