There was only one rigid rule for them: that no loud noises, such as chopping dog meat or shouting, were to be made from ten o'clock at night until eight in the morning.
While living on the _Roosevelt_, in winter quarters, we abandoned much of the routine of ship life afloat.

The only regular bells were those at ten and twelve at night, the first a signal for all loud noises to cease, the latter a signal for lights to be turned out.

The only watches were those of the regular day and night watchmen.
With the exception of a few cases of grip, the health of the party was good during the whole period of our life at winter quarters.

Grip in the Arctic, coincident with epidemics in Europe and America, is rather an interesting phenomenon.

My first experience with it was in 1892, following one of the peculiar Greenland storms, similar to those in the Alps--a storm which evidently swept over the entire width of Greenland from the southeast, raising the temperature from the minus thirties to plus forty-one in twenty-four hours.