Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 32 gallons
Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 32 gallons
Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 331 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 97 tons 1458 lbs 

AM
These twenty four hours begin clear and pleasant with fresh W.N.W. and N.W. winds. Rising barometer 
and rapidly falling temperature. Sky almost entirely free from clouds until noon. At 7 there was a slight 
movement to the ice ahead of the ship. Early daylight at 6.55am. Measurements of portions of the ice 
floe broken off and turned up in the last pressure gave a thickness of 46 inches and this is the result of 
direct freezing since November 28th, 1879.
Sounded at noon in 30 fathoms, green mud. No drift indicated by lead line.
At 1 there were visible six auroral arches, two crossing the zenith, and two north of zenith and two south 
of zenith. Altitude of lowest north 15°, of lowest south 10°. Northern arches of curtain form, southern 
arches dull. Diffused light between; at 2 an arch to S. 15° in alt, and an arch to N. 8° in alt; also an arch 
through zenith from W. x N. to N.E. Diffused light. At 3 auroral arch to S. 20° in altitude with bands 
through and north of zenith, radiating to a circular space at zenith, all faint. At 4 auroral arch to S. 20° in 
alt, brightest in S.W. x W. Streaks through zenith and radiations to it from all points in the North. At 5 
diffused aurora.

PM
Moderating breezes from W.N.W. with clear and pleasant weather, rising barometer and steadily falling 
temperature. Mercury freezes at 5pm in mercurial thermometer No. 4313 (Green, NY) at a temperature 
of -42°.
Slight ice movement at 2. At 6 an auroral arch 10° in alt in N. x E.; at 7 auroral arch 20° in altitude in N. x 
E. (extending from N.E. to N. x W.) curving to northward at the ends; at 8 faint arch to N; at 10 a brilliant 
aurora to S'd; at 11 four auroral arches radiating from E.N.E. in ellipses ending in W.S.W. passing N. 
and S. of zenith; at 12 the same had grown faint.

Moon 12° N. 
New moon