Entry Index: 202
Position: No position
Date by Position: 13 January 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
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: 213 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 98 tons 498 lbs AM The day opened partly cloudy with very light breeze from N.N.W. At 3 the sky became very nearly overcast but cleared by noon, leaving a mist around southern horizon. At 1 auroral arch to W'd passing through zenith and having a curved curtain 15° in alt in the North with radiations toward the zenith. At 2 auroral arch 25° in altitude from N.W. to N.E., and a faint arch from east to zenith. At 4 faint auroral arch from E. to W. through zenith. At 6 faint diffused aurora. Early daylight at 7.40. At 12 a mist arose from the ice same distance ahead of ship, and water clouds were visible in N.N.E. horizon. Sounded at noon in 30 1/4 fathoms. Dark green mud. No indicated drift. PM Light airs from W'd and calms. Falling barometer and temperature. Faint auroras in N. at 5 and 6. At 10.30 auroral arch 15° in alt to north from N.E. to N.W.; at 11 this second arch had a curtain depending from its eastern end to the horizon; and at midnight the same arch consisted of irregular motionless bands of white light, resembling the light thrown by the moon on stratus clouds. Carpenter engaged in building boat sleds. At 9.15 loud noises from the ice about 1000 yards ahead of the ship with great pressures. At 11 the noises had passed off to the eastward and were becoming faint in the distance. Moon 9° S. New moon
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At 9.15 p.m. the quartermaster came in to report heavy grinding and movement ahead of the ship to the S.S.W. Seizing a lantern I rushed out upon the floe, accompanied by Alexey, and from the horrid din and screeching of the ice I thought the commotion could not be fifty feet from us. Alternate the howling of a gale around the rigging of a ship with the beat of the paddle-wheels of a hundred steamers, and you will have a good idea of what this noise sounded like. Not feeling any trembling to our floe, I concluded to look further for the disturbance, and so went on. After going about one thousand yards and crossing two cracks my lantern went out. We were not up to the disturbance yet, and the noise was quite as great. After floundering and stumbling around for a while, I decided to return and await events nearer home. Alexey and myself, after rolling over and over a dozen times or more in the darkness, made our way back, and finding no disturbance at the ship, we dismissed the subject contemptuously as "plenty noise, small move." At eleven the noise and movement had passed off to the eastward and were growing faint in the distance.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nnw | 30.46 | — | -24.5 | — | — | bc |
| 2 | n | 30.46 | — | -24.5 | — | — | bc |
| 3 | n | 30.47 | — | -22.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | n | 30.48 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 5 | n | 30.48 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | wxn | 30.48 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | calm | 30.48 | — | -23.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | calm | 30.48 | — | -24.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | calm | 30.5 | — | -25.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 10 | calm | 30.5 | — | -26.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 11 | calm | 30.51 | — | -29.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | wnw | 30.45 | — | -29.2 | — | 30.0 | bcz |
| 13 | wnw | 30.41 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | calm | 30.38 | — | -31.8 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | wnw | 30.38 | — | -32.3 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | wxn | 30.38 | — | -33.0 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | calm | 30.38 | — | -34.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | w | 30.38 | — | -34.0 | — | — | b |
| 19 | calm | 30.38 | — | -33.5 | — | — | b |
| 20 | calm | 30.37 | — | -34.0 | — | — | b |
| 21 | calm | 30.34 | — | -35.0 | — | — | b |
| 22 | calm | 30.32 | — | -35.0 | — | — | b |
| 23 | wnw | 30.31 | — | -33.0 | — | — | b |
| 24 | wnw | 30.3 | — | -32.0 | — | — | b |
