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1912]
WINTER OCCUPATIONS RENEWED
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To Williamson ..... Gulab
To Hooper ..... Abdullah
To Archer ..... Pyaree

A regular night watch to take hourly observations of aurora, to look after the mules and to keep in the fires was also kept. Since our numbers were so much reduced the men were asked to take their nights, and to this they cheerfully agreed. We numbered altogether thirteen souls in the hut. Weekly lectures were arranged to be given by the various officers, and instead of confining these to merely scientific subjects, other items of interest were lectured upon.