Entry Index: 323
Position: 73.13, 178.96
Date by Position: 14 May 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 07' 46" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun E. 178° 57' 45" Variation of the compass by azimuth Sun observed at 5.30pm E. 20° 15' 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: 400 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 61 tons 2218 lbs Maximum temperature indicated by B.B. in vacuo = 105.5° between 1 and 2pm The pumping and distilling are done by the Baxter engine and boiler. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At fire room bilge 5 inches 10 inches 0 inches Sounded at noon in 27 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift indicated by the lead line. At 4am a flock of birds flew across the bow from E. to W. At 9.30pm a bear coming to about two hundred yards from the ship was fired at and wounded, and, being chased, was killed and his body brought to the ship. A seal and two guillemots were also killed and brought in. Weather generally cloudy and gloomy until noon, when it became clear and pleasant and so continued until 10.30pm. Light northerly winds, veering as day progresses. Slightly fluctuating barometer and irregularly varying temperature. Moon 20° 34' N. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
The traveling, as I said before, was tremendously bad. The surface of the ice-field around us from a distance of two hundred yards outward is all broken and hove up, the up-ended pieces of floebergs standing at all angles and in all positions. The small amount of snow which has fallen during the winter has been swept in masses of drift in all nooks and crannies and spaces, making a most uneven surface. Here and there the crust has hardened enough to present an appearance of strength. One trusts himself on it, and immediately sinks to his waist.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nne | 30.13 | — | 6.8 | — | — | ocz |
| 2 | nne | 30.12 | — | 5.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 3 | n | 30.13 | — | 4.4 | — | — | oczs |
| 4 | nxe | 30.13 | — | 4.3 | — | — | oczs |
| 5 | n | 30.13 | — | 5.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 6 | nexe | 30.13 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 7 | nexe | 30.13 | — | 7.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 8 | nexe | 30.12 | — | 7.0 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | nexe | 30.12 | — | 10.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 10 | nexe | 30.12 | — | 11.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 11 | nexe | 30.12 | — | 11.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | nexe | 30.14 | — | 12.5 | — | — | oc |
| 13 | nexe | 30.13 | — | 12.0 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | nexe | 30.13 | — | 11.7 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | nexn | 30.12 | — | 11.0 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | nne | 30.13 | — | 12.0 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | nexn | 30.13 | — | 12.3 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | ne | 30.13 | — | 14.5 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | ne | 30.14 | — | 17.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | ne | 30.14 | — | 9.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | ne | 30.15 | — | 5.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | ne | 30.16 | — | 1.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | ne | 30.16 | — | 1.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 24 | nexe | 30.16 | — | 0.5 | — | — | ocz |
