Identifier: arcticexploratio01kane (find matches)
Title: Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Subjects: Grinnell Expedition 1853-1855)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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DARKNESS â THE COLD ^THE ice-blink FOX-CHASEâESQUIMAUX HUTSâOCCULTA- TION OF SATURN PORTRAIT OF OLD GRIM. October 28, Friday.âThe moon has reached hergreatest northern declination of about 25° 35. She isa glorious object: sweeping around the heavens, at thelowest part of her curve, she is still 14° above thehorizon. For eight days she has been making her cir-cuit with nearly unvarying brightness. It is one ofthose sparkling nights that bring back the memory ofsleigh-bells and songs and glad communings of heartsin lands that are far away. Our fires and ventilation-fixtures are so arrangedthat we are able to keep a mean temperature belowof 65°, and on deck, under our housing, above thefreezing-point. This is admirable success; for theweather outside is at 25° below zero, and there is quitea little breeze blowing. The last remnant of walrus did not leave us untilthe second week of last month, when the temjDeraturehad sunk below zero. Till then they found open HO t W I ^ eel
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WALRUS-HOLES. 141 water enough to sport and even sleep in, betweenthe fields of drift, as they opened with the tide; butthey had worked numerous breathing-holes besides, inthe solid ice nearer shore/ Many of these were in-side the capes of Rensselaer Harbor. They had thesame circular, cleanly-finished margin as the seals,but they were in much thicker ice, and the radiating

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