Only a day or two more, and his light would shine directly upon us.

The feeling of the arctic traveler for the returning sun after the long darkness is a feeling hard to interpret to those who are accustomed to seeing the sun every morning.
On the following day, March 4, the weather changed.

The sky was overcast with clouds, the wind had swung completely around to the west during the night, there were occasional squalls of light snow, and the thermometer had risen to only 9 deg.

below zero.

This temperature, after that of the minus fifties, in which we had been traveling, seemed almost oppressively warm.