Entry Index: 252
Position: No position
Date by Position: 3 March 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
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: 320 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 75 tons 2213 lbs The steam cutters engine and boiler are employed in running the main engine bilge pump about 15 minutes every hour, the remaining 45 minutes being devoted to distilling. The forward spar deck bilge pump is worked by hand until 10pm when, the Baxter boiler and engine being fully repaired and in working order, it is worked by steam. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 7 inches 6 inches 6 inches At fire room bilge 1 1/2 inches 2 inches 1 inch Sounded at noon in 33 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No indicated drift. Ice 5 inches in thickness formed over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Early daylight at 3.45am. A piece of drift wood, resembling birch, was found on the ice some distance from the ship and brought on board. Upon inquiry it was learned that the finder had seen this same piece of wood several months ago, and at that time there were the prints of two moccasins on the same piece of ice with it. Clear and pleasant weather with moderate northerly and easterly winds, slowly falling followed by slowly rising barometer, with increasing temperature to noon and falling temperature to midnight. At 1am faint auroral gleams in W.N.W. developing into an arch 40° in altitude to N. and extending from W. to N.E. At 2am faint arch 60° in alt to N. Extending from W. to N.E. x E. with subsidiary (?) arch 75° in altitude very bright but short chiefly from zenith to W. Streamers in N.W. At 3am auroral arch from W.N.W. to N.E. Semi-elliptical, 35° in altitude to N'd with bright undulations passing slowly along it from W. to E. Broken curtain arch 35° in altitude to S. At 4 faint diffused light in E.S.E. with streamers. At 7pm faint arch 10° in altitude to N. At 9 auroral arch to N'd 25° in altitude Semi-elliptical. At 10 bright curtain with double arch form, 10° and 15° in altitude to north. At 11 broken curtain 10° in altitude from N.W. to N.N.E. brightest at west end. At midnight irregular arch 20° in altitude from N.W. to N.N.E. Moon 25° S. Last quarter
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At the suggestion of Mr. Newcomb I gave an order the other day, that whenever the men went away from the ship on their walks they should keep a lookout for shells or other things on the ice, and bring such articles to the ship. To-day one of the men brought in some shells, and a piece of drift-wood resembling birch, which he had found. It seems he saw this piece of drift-wood in December, but attaching no importance to it, did not remove it. At that time he says he saw the print of two moccasins (and only one print) on the snow covering the floe. As it is not possible that these prints were made by any of the ship's company, it would seem probable that this piece of ice came from near some inhabited land; and as the drift-wood is no doubt from Siberia, it may be that this piece of ice came from some Siberian river. As in the month of December we were drifting around in the neighborhood of 72° 30', that floe, with its wood and foot-prints, must have come a long distance.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ne | 30.44 | — | -45.0 | -48.5 | — | bz |
| 2 | nne | 30.42 | — | -45.3 | -49.0 | — | bcz |
| 3 | nne | 30.4 | — | -45.0 | -49.0 | — | bcz |
| 4 | nne | 30.4 | — | -45.3 | -49.0 | — | bcz |
| 5 | ne | 30.41 | — | -45.5 | -49.0 | — | bc |
| 6 | ne | 30.39 | — | -45.5 | -49.0 | — | bc |
| 7 | ne | 30.38 | — | -46.5 | -50.0 | — | bc |
| 8 | nexe | 30.35 | — | -45.5 | -48.0 | — | bc |
| 9 | nexe | 30.35 | — | -45.5 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | ene | 30.36 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | ene | 30.36 | — | -44.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | ene | 30.35 | — | -43.0 | — | 27.0 | bc |
| 13 | nne | 30.3 | — | -43.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 14 | nne | 30.29 | — | -42.3 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | nne | 30.31 | — | -41.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | nxe | 30.33 | — | -42.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | nxe | 30.33 | — | -43.0 | -45.0 | — | bc |
| 18 | n | 30.34 | — | -44.0 | -47.5 | — | bc |
| 19 | north | 30.36 | — | -44.0 | -47.0 | — | bcz |
| 20 | nxe | 30.36 | — | -44.0 | -48.0 | — | bcz |
| 21 | nxe | 30.36 | — | -45.0 | -49.0 | — | bcz |
| 22 | nxe | 30.37 | — | -46.5 | -50.7 | — | bcz |
| 23 | nxe | 30.38 | — | -46.5 | -50.7 | — | bcz |
| 24 | nxe | 30.39 | — | -47.0 | -51.0 | — | bcz |
