503 at about 2 a.m., while the wind was still strong here, and awakened Peter, telling him that there was no wind on the ice (cap. Surely enough the wind died down so that there could not have been much up there by they time that they arrived on the glacier. Last night I trimmed off most of my moustache and goatee and to-day's walk out to the big valley and back with Janquay proved the value of the change, almost no ice forming around my mouth instead of the clumps that have formed heretofore. Janic had clipped only his moustache, but no ice form- ed on his chin and I am going to let the beard grow again on my chin. We had a good walk in the sharp, calm air. The ice must be improving in this weather. As we turned to come back to the ship about 3:45 we noticed a thin band of aurora spanning the