The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"
CHAPTER XVII. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
New Year's Day, 202; mustard and cress, 205; heavy snow-drifts, 206; returning light, 207; severe cold, 208; an alarm in the observatory, 209; condition of the Eskimo dogs, 210; Nellie and the lemmings, 212; Rawson's snow hut, 212; the last school meeting, 213; the last dramatic performance, 214; the last "pop," 215; grand palæocrystic sledging chorus, 216.