Entry Index: 172
Position: No position
Date by Position: 14 December 1879
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Latitude by observation at noon: no observation Longitude by chronometer from forenoon observations: no observation Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: using as distilled. Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 32 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 210 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 101 tons 1997 lbs AM Cloudy and pleasant. Hazy at times. Moderate breeze from S'd and W'd veering to N'd. At 11 Commanding Officer inspected the ship. At 11.15 sounded in 31 1/2 fathoms. Blue mud. Drift to eastward. Ship heeling 2 1/2° to starboard. PM Cloudy and pleasant. Hazy during evening. At 1.30 held divine service. Commanding Officer officiating. After 5 the sky became hazy. Faint auroral arch and gleams. Wind veering to eastward. Moon 21° S. New moon
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New ice has formed twenty inches in thickness around us, and salt has been deposited on its surface by crystallization. What the certain thickness may be at which the ice is almost free from salt I know not, and Weyprecht does not say. But with a saw we cut from a thickness of sixteen inches of ice four pieces, each four inches thick, in regular succession, melted the ice, and the resulting water was so salt as to be unfit for use. I will try this experiment with an eight foot floe in a few days, and inscribe the result in this record. Without evaporating the water, and weighing the remaining salt, I could not say what the exact degrees of difference were, if any, between the several four inch layers; but by the nitrate of silver test the water turned white in each case to the same degree, and the bottom layer made water as unfit to drink as did the surface layer containing the crystallized salt.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sxw | 29.8 | — | 11.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 2 | ssw | 29.79 | — | 9.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 3 | swxw | 29.8 | — | 5.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | wsw | 29.82 | — | 3.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 5 | wxn | 29.85 | — | 3.0 | — | — | oz |
| 6 | wxn | 29.86 | — | 1.5 | — | — | oz |
| 7 | w | 29.9 | — | 2.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 8 | w | 29.95 | — | -4.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | w | 30.01 | — | -10.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | wxn | 30.06 | — | -13.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | wxn | 30.08 | — | -15.0 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | wxn | 30.1 | — | -16.0 | — | — | bc |
| 13 | wnw | 30.11 | — | -16.0 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | nw | 30.14 | — | -17.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | n | 30.16 | — | -18.0 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | n | 30.19 | — | -20.0 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | n | 30.23 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | n1/2e | 30.24 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | nne | 30.26 | — | -20.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | nne | 30.27 | — | -20.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | nexe | 30.31 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | nexe | 30.3 | — | -19.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | ne | 30.27 | — | -18.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 24 | ne | 30.26 | — | -17.0 | — | — | ocz |
