There was an electric snowstorm, with great flakes falling loosely, and the contact produced this strange luminosity.

The sea rose so suddenly and tumbled about so wildly that the _Paracuta_ was several times in danger of being swallowed up by the waves, but we got through the mystic-seeming tempest all safe and sound.
Nevertheless, space was thenceforth but imperfectly lighted.
Frequent mists came up and bounded our outlook to a few cable-lengths.

Extreme watchfulness and caution were necessary to avoid collision with the floating masses of ice, which were travelling more slowly than the _Paracuta_.
It is also to be noted that, on the southern side, the sky was frequently lighted up by the broad and brilliant rays of the polar aurora.
The temperature fell very perceptibly, and no longer rose above twenty-three degrees.
Forty-eight hours later Captain Len Guy and his brother succeeded with great difficulty in taking an approximate observation, with the following results of their calculations: Latitude: 75 deg.

17' south.
Latitude: 118 deg.

3' east.
At this date, therefore (12th March), the _Paracuta_ was distant from the waters of the Antarctic Circle only four hundred miles.
During the night a thick fog came on, with a subsidence of the breeze.