FOREVER. We believe that they went in to Hays Harbor seeking the use of the two islands on their way. James says that yesterday's weather did not detain them and only his solicitude for another day's waiting kept them from carrying out their hazardous plan! I believe that their haste in leaving this morning was the result of their anxiety lest we prevail upon them to stay until calm weather. This evening a strong appearance in the northwest sky gave us hope for a break in the monotony of this terrible wind. She is not colder than 8-10° above zero; exercise out of doors is very unpleasant. Monday October 5-1914 And still it blows! [Sixth round] James and I are both a little melancholy with the colds we have, and yesterday I felt that one outside is increasing. Tonight put on jacket time an hour; 6 x 9 minutes became red eyes. I am trying to walk regularly. On the other side of the island is a curious feature: two small mountains of granite, an old fault it is, running almost at right angles to the coast surging out of the first. In this line, scarcely fifty feet in length, I walk back and forth, flunked by black wells and alive only to the problems in my mind—how dull would the eye be with out that divine passion that imagination!