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: 1290 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 84 tons 745 lbs 

The Sewell pump in the engine room is kept running all day at the rate of 35 strokes per minute holding 
the water in check. 
The rig for connecting the steam cutters engine to the bilge pump of the main engines being completed, 
steam was led to it from the main boiler to tug it. The trial was not satisfactory. The following seemed to 
be the difficulty: the pump is a 6 inch force pump forcing water through a 1 1/2 inch pipe which in its 
course to the outside of the ship is long and sinuous. The steam cutters engine is a 4 1/2" x 6" engine, 
and rigged to work the pump by two pulleys 6 inches and 18 inches diameter respectively, the 6 inch 
pulley on the engine, the 18 inch pulley on the shafting which by crank motion and bolting works the 
pump. The speeds are as 3 to 1. After laboring 4 hours to overcome the difficulty, the discharge pipe in 
the ships side was found to be frozen solid. While thawing it preparatory to another effort these 24 hours 
close. The pump action is so labored that the steam cutters engine does not seem able to do the work.
Water in the ship to day 

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

The day opens and continues clear and pleasant with light breeze from S'd & E'd, falling barometer and 
rising temperature. Sounded at noon in 29 fathoms. Muddy bottom. Slight drift to N'd. 8 inches of ice 
formed over sounding hole since yesterday noon. Upon attempting to measure the thickness of the 
same floe mentioned on the 4th as 5 feet 4 inches thick, it was found that another floe had shoved under 
it. Early daylight at 6am. The "north side of Wrangell Land" visible from 9 to 11am on a general S. x W. 
(true) bearing. 
At 1am faint diffused auroral light to N'd with streamers from N.E. toward zenith; at 2 auroral curtains 
between W.N.W. and W.S.W. 15° above horizon, which at 3 were growing fainter; at 4 and 5 an auroral 
arch 30° in alt to south from N.E. to S.W. and at 6 diffused auroral light. 
At 6pm faint auroral arch in N. 15° in alt continuing at 7, 8 and 9. At 10 auroral arch 20° in altitude from 
E.N.E. to W.N.W. forked at east end. At midnight brilliant patches of aurora scattered over sky from 10° 
above horizon to zenith, with streamers shooting up from N.E. curving nearly to S.W. horizon. 

Moon 23° 42' S. 
Last quarter