On the 1905-06 expedition I had done too much dreaming; this time I knew better.

Too often in the past had I found myself face to face with impassable barriers.

Whenever I caught myself building air castles, I would either attack some work requiring intense application of the mind, or would go to sleep--it was hard sometimes to fight back the dreams, especially in my solitary walks on the ice-foot under the arctic moon.
On the evening of November 11, there was a brilliant paraselene, two distinct halos and eight false moons being visible in the southern sky.
This phenomenon is not unusual in the Arctic, and is caused by the frost crystals in the air.

On this particular occasion the inner halo had a false moon at its zenith, another at its nadir, and one each at the right and left.

Outside was another halo, with four other moons.
Sometimes during the summer we see the parhelion, a similar phenomenon of the sun.