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The nicknames are as follows:
| James Pigg | .... | Keohane |
| Bones | .... | Crean |
| Michael | .... | Clissold |
| Snatcher | .... | Evans (P.O.) |
| Jehu | ||
| China | ||
| Christopher | .... | Hooper |
| Victor | .... | Bowers |
| Snippets (windsucker) | ||
| Nobby | .... | Lashly |
Friday, June 2.—The wind still high. The drift ceased at an early hour yesterday; it is difficult to account for the fact. At night the sky cleared; then and this morning we had a fair display of aurora streamers to the N. and a faint arch east. Curiously enough the temperature still remains high, about +7°.
The meteorological conditions are very puzzling.
Saturday, June 3—The wind dropped last night, but at 4 a.m. suddenly sprang up from a dead calm to 30 miles an hour. Almost instantaneously, certainly within the space of one minute, there was a temperature rise of nine degrees. It is the most extraordinary and interesting example of a rise of temperature with a southerly wind that I can remember. It is certainly difficult to account for unless we imagine that during the calm the surface layer of cold air is extremely thin and that there is a steep inverted gradient. When the wind arose the sky overhead was