Show night two gr graphic D description Z r i p t of I 1 life in n t t I 1 months long 11 heaton ealon from this day may 17 wo we were not to see the sun again foi two months at the beginning we did not prospect ot of this long polar night before us but lefore the sun had bein gone many days daya one of us became very ill danco lacked the constitution to hold out and on june 5 lie ho died in the ob of the midday twilight tillight we carded danco a body to a hole which had been cut in the ice and committed it to the tha deep A bitter wind was blowing as with bared heads beads bah of us silent and s sid aid id we e left him there and the hoe floe drifted on in the antarctic legions thanks doubtless doubt lesa to the detestable climate the disastrous effects of oc the polar are far more marked than in the north there Is a i general lowering of 0 the tern tem and the heart acts feebly several oral of us developed serious symptoms and without dally daily care on the part of the doctor others would not havo have survived the period of daik nesi though it ats relatively short abort one part of cook a treatment was waa very effective and in genelous those who wets effected by deficient circulation were ere roade made to stand in it a halt half naked condition conditi on close to the led hot tovo tove foi several hours dally daily lit in this way the action of the solar radiation was in part replaced by ia iab s of artificial heat in a manner admittedly but none the less beneficial life on board during the polar night was of giedt interest Inte iest from a psychological pant of lew one finds ones self in conditions of oc existence and altogether abnormal and crowded against ones fellows in an uncomfortably narrow space gorne anio became norvus ous excitable and ale pless with tho the wandering aril dreaming I 1 was wag one of these others noro more happny constituted became chronically thed and indifferent those these slept iauch lut everybody was wag content to spend twelve hours a day or more lit in bed ono one of the crew dovel developed maniacal tendencies another la in more evil bahe was aa brought homo home insane sinla the return of the expedition ono one of our best men knutsen hns has died doubtless from heart discala contracted in the antarctic in the journal |