Entry Index: 194
Position: No position
Date by Position: 5 January 1880
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 33 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 33 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 395 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 99 tons 360 lbs AM Day opened overcast with very light snow. At 3am auroral arch 40° in altitude in N. extending from W. by N. to N.E. Early daylight at 7.50. Sounded at noon in 30 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No indicated drift. Washed clothes. Surgeon examined the crew. George W. Boyd, 2nd class fireman, was found to have ruptured himself since the physical examination of last month. PM At 10.30 remarkable meteoric light to S'd illuminating the floe with a brilliant green flash. At 11.15 a slight movement of the ice to the S'd. Sky perfectly cloudless after 6. Moon 17° S. Last quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wnw | 30.3 | — | -4.8 | — | — | oczs |
| 2 | wnw1/2w | 30.32 | — | -5.2 | — | — | bczs |
| 3 | n | 30.33 | — | -8.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | n | 30.36 | — | -11.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 5 | n | 30.38 | — | -11.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | n | 30.39 | — | -14.5 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | n | 30.42 | — | -16.5 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | n | 30.44 | — | -20.5 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | n | 30.45 | — | -24.0 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | n | 30.46 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | n | 30.46 | — | -27.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | n | 30.47 | — | -28.0 | — | 28.0 | bc |
| 13 | n | 30.48 | — | -29.7 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | nxe | 30.51 | — | -29.8 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | n | 30.55 | — | -30.8 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | nxe | 30.51 | — | -31.0 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | nxe | 30.6 | — | -31.2 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | nxe1/2e | 30.63 | — | -31.0 | — | — | b |
| 19 | n | 30.65 | — | -31.0 | — | — | b |
| 20 | calm | 30.67 | — | -31.0 | — | — | b |
| 21 | n | 30.7 | — | -30.0 | — | — | b |
| 22 | n | 30.72 | — | -30.0 | — | — | b |
| 23 | ene | 30.69 | — | -30.5 | — | — | b |
| 24 | ene | 30.7 | — | -31.0 | — | — | b |