Monday, April 24.A night watchman has been instituted mainly for the purpose of observing the aurora, of which the displays have been feeble so far.

You heard gun-fire half a mile, perhaps a mile, away; and raising your head you saw auroras from bursting shells.

Alone and almost unsheltered on a great ocean of snow, each man squats down in his frail beehive of a hut, and spends the long winter nights in watching the magnificent auroras, which seem to fill the blue vault of heaven with blood and dye the earth in crimson, listening to the pulsating of the blood in his ears and the faint distant howls of his enemies the wolves.