Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 31 gallons
Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 31 gallons
Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 226 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 99 tons 134 lbs 

AM
Day opened clear and pleasant, a perfect cloudless sky, with light breezes from N'd & E'd. Steady 
barometer and slightly rising temperature. 
Faint auroral arches were observed until 6am; a meteor in S'd falling to S.W., and another meteor in 
east falling to S.E. Moon just above S.E. horizon at 7. 
During forenoon land was seen between S.S.E. and S.S.W. (magnetic) and recognized as the same 
land as was sighted on October 29th et seq. The land was much raised by refraction, and an inverted 
image presented over the real one. The outline of the real land much obscured. Appearance of land in 
direction of the bearing of Herald Island. 
Sounded at noon in 30 1/2 fathoms, muddy bottom. No indicated drift.

PM
At 2pm the land outline was much plainer. A meteor was observed at 4 and another at 9. Auroral arches 
from 5 to midnight the remarkable one being a bright curtain at 9 forming an ellipse; two arches at 11, 
starting from a point in N.E. and ending respectively in N.N.W. and W. Coronas being 20° and 90° in 
altitude; and a four arch fan at midnight from the same point. Coronas 30°, 60°, 75° and 90° in altitude, 
ending at N.N.W., N.W., N.W. x W. and W.N.W. Twilight arch 10° at 4pm.
A perfectly cloudless sky from 5 to midnight. Barometer rising until 10pm, and temperature continues to 
rise at midnight.

Moon 21° S. 
Last quarter