5 February. Saturday. Clear, cloudless, calm. (Light N.W. wind out in bay at 2 p. None on mts, according to Dr. Hunt, who was out on an unsuccessful hunt for hares.) Temp. min -24°; 9a.-16°; noon-19° .. Took another five mile walk on the bay with the engineer.. New moon, three days old, visible above the southern mountains. At 5 p.m. the moon, Venus and Jupiter presented a magnificent sight. The earth shine on the moon was particularly bright. This afternoon the engineer called me in- to my cabin and returned two boxes of figs and two packages of dates which he had taken from one of our boxes when it was on the ice beside the ship waiting to be loaded onto the Karnatik (Sajdhis) for Ummarasc. He confessed to Mr. Ek- blaw and the Captain also. The edge is taken off from this confession, how- ever, by the fact that he must have dis-