The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912

At last we got away, on October 19. The weather for the past few days had not been altogether reliable; now windy, now calm now snowing, now clear: regular spring weather, in other words. That day it continued unsettled; it was misty and thick in the morning, and did not promise well for the day, but by 9.30 there was a light breeze from the east, and at the same time it cleared.