Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 34 gallons
Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 34 gallons
Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 368 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 98 tons 2006 lbs 

AM
Day begins clear and pleasant with light starlight, steady temperature and barometer. Sounded at noon 
in 30 fathoms, no indicated drift. Early daylight at 7.30. 
At 1 auroral arches, 25° N. and 35° S., with diffused light between them; at 2 auroral arch through 80° N. 
from N.E. to S.W. x W; also arch 15° in S; at 3 auroral arches in N. and S. 15°, streamers and curved 
lines around the horizon with their center in zenith; at 4 auroral arch in S. 25°, extending from N.E. to 
W., fading upward; at 5 aurora in all parts of the heavens, but brightest at S., continuing until 8 at which 
time very faint. 
Land was sighted on the same bearings as yesterday, and also a very strange appearance of land 
bearing W.S.W. magnetic.

PM
Weather continues clear and pleasant, with haze around horizon most of the time.
Faint auroral gleam in S.W. at 5; at 10 auroral arch to N., the same continuing at 11 and accompanied 
by another, both broken, the one 20° in alt the other passing through zenith. Under the lower and 
depended a black curtain through which stars could not be seen. The arches extended from N.W. to 
N.E. and were dim at midnight.

Moon 24° S. 
Last quarter