WE BREAK ALL RECORDS By an odd coincidence, soon after Marvin left us on his fatal journey from 86 deg.

38' back to land, the sun was obscured and a dull, lead-colored haze spread over all the sky.

This grayness, in contrast to the dead white surface of the ice and snow and the strangely diffused quality of the light, gave an indescribable effect.

It was a shadowless light and one in which it was impossible to see for any considerable distance.
That shadowless light is not unusual on the ice-fields of the polar sea; but this was the first occasion on which we had encountered it since leaving the land.

One looking for the most perfect illustration of the arctic inferno would find it in that gray light.