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convinced that the clock at least [65]
did not indicate the near approach
of breakfast time yet and left the scene.
To quote from my journal for the
15th of August: 11 p.m. The evening
has been clear, calm, and beautiful
beyond adequate treatment with my
powers of description. There are a few
clouds in the sky, but the sun is disc
is free from them. The color effects
differ in different quarters of the heavens,
but all are beautiful and they change
rapidly as the sun sweeps along the
northern horizon. Icebergs, sea,
mountainous islands and coastline,
fjords, distant glaciers and ice-
caps look weird and mysterious
in the soft twilight. The noise made
by the gentle wavelets striking into
the waterlevel grooves of icebergs