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Midnight. The moon is visible and
is giving considerable light, but the
air is full of flying snow particles
and the wind seems to have shifted
on the ice cap
to the northeast. The foen, which
Peter says it was, is probably over
and we are about to have a con-
siderable drop in temperature.
Peter says that two or three of these
foen (or fön) winds and attendant
rises in temperature come every
winter - late in November,
January and March. He
calls them southeasterly winds.
At the ship's position we cannot
surely determine the direction
of the wind.
26 November. Friday.
Somewhat overcast in the morn-
ing, clearing after noon. Wind
died down after midnight and