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: 505 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 75 tons 1708 lbs 

The forward spar deck bilge pump is run as usual about half the time by the Baxter engine. Stopped 
using the steam cutter's boiler engine to run the main engine bilge pump, in order to scale and clean the 
boiler and secure it more firmly to the fire room flooring. In order to prevent freezing the pump is worked 
occasionally by hand.
Water in the ship to day 

at 8am
at 4pm
at midnight 
At water tight bulkhead
11 inches
10 inches
14 inches
At fire room bilge
0 inches
7 inches
10 inches

Sounded at noon in 32 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom, a drift to S.E. being indicated by the lead line. The 
usual sounding hole having become closed from below by the passing under of a floe piece. A hole was 
cut through the floe nearer the ship where the ice was in thickness four feet being the result of direct 
freezing in thirty days.
Clear and pleasant weather, with light northerly and easterly winds and very nearly steady barometer 
and temperature. Early daylight at 3. 
At 1am faint broken arch 35° in altitude to N., brightest in west, and extending from W.N.W. to N.E. At 2 
faint arch 40° in altitude to N. with bright streamers at W. end; at 3 faint arch 40° in altitude to N. 
At 4, 5 and 6pm vapor arose from the ice to S.W. and W. distant from 2 to 3 miles. Jets of vapor would 
rise like small explosions, or escape of steam, seeming to indicate an opening in the ice field, and to 
mark the progress of the line of division.
At 10pm faint auroral gleams in N.E.; at 11 faint arch 45° in altitude extending from N.E. to W.N.W., with 
a luminous mass at N.E. end from which the arch originally sprung. At midnight the northern sky was 
covered with tiers of auroral curtains from 10° above the horizon to the zenith, and extending from N.E. 
to S.W. The light from these curtains illuminated the whole ice field for a mile in radius from the ship, 
and made each spar and rope as distinguishable as by full moonlight. 
The coal being sufficiently consumed out of the port coal bunker to permit an examination of the inside 
of the ship at that place, it was discovered to day that in one of the severe nips which we have 
sustained, the six inch Oregon pine ceiling has been crushed in to the depth of half an inch when the 
transverse strengthening beam came against it, and that in several places the inboard ends of the metal 
fastenings were forced 3/8" inch from the ceiling.

Moon 24° S. 
Last quarter