The centre of a cyclonic movement had passed over us, and the compass recorded an extraordinarily rapid swing of the floe.

I could see nothing through the mist and snow, and I thought it possible that a magnetic storm or a patch of local magnetic attraction had caused the compass, and not the floe, to swing, Our floe was now about 2ｽ miles long north and south and 3 miles wide east and west.
The month of May passed with few incidents of importance.

Hurley, our handy man, installed our small electric-lighting plant and placed lights for occasional use in the observatory, the meteorological station, and various other points.

We could not afford to use the electric lamps freely.

Hurley also rigged two powerful lights on poles projecting from the ship to port and starboard.