Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons
Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons
Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 1110 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 85 tons 915 lbs 

The Sewell pump in the engine room is kept running all day at the rate of 35 strokes per minute. 
Comparing the work performed by the pump yesterday with the work done by the pump to day it would 
appear that we had reduced the amount of water coming into the ship to 1968 gallons per hour. The 
work of filling in between frames forward of the bulkhead constructed across the fore peak is about 
completed, nothing remaining but to place fresh fillings in places vacated by the settling of the old ones. 
The carpenters are now engaged in this work and in making pulleys for the gearing of the main engine 
bilge pump to the steam cutters engine. 
Amount of water in the ship to day 

8am
4pm
at midnight
Fire room bilge
16 inches
16 inches
16 inches 

The day opened calm and overcast until 11pm there was but little sky visible, a fog bank rising in E. x S. 
at 9am and light flurries of snow falling from 11am to 7pm. Light and variable winds prevailed. Slowly 
falling barometer, and slightly rising temperature.
Sounded at noon in 29 fathoms, muddy bottom. No indicated drift. Amount of ice formed over sounding 
hole in 24 hours = 4 inches. Thickness of ice by direct freezing since November 28th = 5 feet 4 inches.
At 2am auroral gleams were observed to N'd between N.E. and W.; at 4 am an auroral arch 20° in alt in 
N.W. its ends being 5° above the horizon.
Early daylight at 6.40am. At 2 and 3pm there was a sound of moving ice to N.E.; at 9 the same to S.W. 
and at 10 the sound in N.E. again. At 10 also then were faint auroral gleams in N., and at 11 in the west. 
At midnight an auroral arch 35° in altitude in the N.
Crew employed in storing provisions which had been sent up from wet hold and storeroom to the best 
advantage on the spar deck and in the deck house.

Moon 25° S. 
Last quarter