Entry Index: 174
Position: No position
Date by Position: 16 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: 39 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 245 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 101 tons 1352 lbs AM Day opened hazy. Fresh breeze from S'd and W'd. Faint auroral arch to the northward. Temperature falling. Sounded at 11.30 in 31 fathoms. Blue mud. Slight drift to eastward. Ship heeling 2 1/2° to starboard. PM Clear and pleasant. Light breeze W. by N. Moon visible at 3. Crew engaged in felting berth deck and in making water closet covers. Auroral display. Calm at times. Moon 12° S. New moon
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As far as it is possible to do so, we are beginning to have some confidence in the stability of our position. We have had such a quiet time with the ice lately that we feel quite confident and reassured. So much so that we contemplate neither a breaking up of the ice nor any treachery while we are walking over it. As if to show us, however, how particularly deceitful our surroundings are, Collins and two men broke through the ice to-day at different times and places within a radius of three hundred yards from the ship. No harm resulted beyond a ducking, from thus involuntarily taking the temperature of the surface water. Highest temperature, minus 11°, lowest minus 26° (our lowest thus far).
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sw | 30.11 | — | -10.0 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | wsw | 30.13 | — | -12.0 | — | — | bz |
| 3 | swxs | 30.16 | — | -15.0 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | swxw | 30.2 | — | -16.0 | — | — | bz |
| 5 | swxw | 30.22 | — | -17.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | swxw | 30.22 | — | -18.5 | — | — | bcq |
| 7 | swxw | 30.23 | — | -18.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | wxs | 30.26 | — | -19.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | wxs | 30.22 | — | -20.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | wxn | 30.3 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | wxn | 30.33 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 12 | wsw | 30.33 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bc |
| 13 | swxw | 30.33 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | wxn | 30.34 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | swxw | 30.36 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | wxs | 30.38 | — | -22.5 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | wxs | 30.41 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bz |
| 18 | wxn | 30.43 | — | -23.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | sw | 30.47 | — | -23.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | sw | 30.48 | — | -25.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | calm | 30.52 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | calm | 30.5 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | sw | 30.57 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | calm | 30.51 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
