Entry Index: 328
Position: 73.44, 178.84
Date by Position: 19 May 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 26' 12" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun E. 178° 50' 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: 450 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 61 tons 168 lbs Maximum temperature indicated by B.B. in vacuo = 114.3° between 1 and 2pm The distilling is done by the Baxter boiler, and the pumping by the wind mill in connection with the bilge pump in the corner of the engine room hatch. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At fire room bilge 4 inches 5 inches 8 inches Sounded at noon in 27 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift to the north being indicated by the lead line. Weather overcast and gloomy during forenoon, clear and pleasant in afternoon. Moderate south- easterly breezes with steady barometer. Carpenters engaged in small repairs about the ship, and engineer's force engaged in construction of boiler tube pump. Moon 2° S. First quarter
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I went out this afternoon accompanied by Melville and Dunbar with a dog team, and striking the young ice about two miles N.E. of the ship, followed it to the westward as it ran for some three miles. I could have gone further, and would have done so but for my desire to get back in time for my sights at 5.30. As a specimen of Arctic scenery, the ice we met was very fine. The young ice covered an opening which was about two hundred yards in width, and in places five hundred yards. Towards the centre and along it ran a crack here and there, widening to a foot. Occasionally pools and lanes were met, the rippling of the water being a sight pleasing to the eyes after our long look at its frozen condition. On each side of this long avenue the pack of old ice stood piled up in irregular masses twenty and thirty feet in height, where great pressures had occurred. (A month ago there was no opening.) The thickest single floeberg I saw was not more than eight feet - other pieces twelve and fifteen feet in thickness, showing, upon examination, lines of strata where one had overridden the other. To the southward of the avenue, beyond the wall of ruins lining its edge, we could see a long plain several miles in extent, seemingly smooth ice, but as Mr. Dunbar had previously attempted to get to the ship by crossing it, he knew that it abounded in traps and pit-falls, where one would unexpectedly flounder and sink to his armpits. To the northward the ice was of the same hilly and broken character as the wall, and I am convinced that a sled could no more be dragged any considerable distance in that direction (or, in fact, upon mature deliberation, in any direction), than it could be dragged across the house-tops of New York in an attempt to go to Harlem from the Battery.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | se | 30.24 | — | 9.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 2 | se | 30.24 | — | 9.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 3 | se | 30.23 | — | 9.8 | — | — | oczs |
| 4 | se | 30.23 | — | 10.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 5 | sexs | 30.23 | — | 10.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 6 | sexs | 30.23 | — | 11.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 7 | sexs | 30.23 | — | 12.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 8 | sexs | 30.24 | — | 13.0 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | sexs | 30.29 | — | 14.0 | — | — | oc |
| 10 | sexs | 30.28 | — | 16.0 | — | — | oc |
| 11 | sexs | 30.28 | — | 15.5 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | sexs | 30.26 | — | 16.0 | — | — | oc |
| 13 | sxe | 30.24 | — | 17.0 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | sxe | 30.24 | — | 17.0 | — | — | oc |
| 15 | sse | 30.23 | — | 17.0 | — | — | oc |
| 16 | s | 30.23 | — | 16.7 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | sexs | 30.23 | — | 15.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | sse | 30.23 | — | 17.5 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | se | 30.22 | — | 17.0 | — | — | bc |
| 20 | se | 30.23 | — | 14.0 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | se | 30.24 | — | 12.0 | — | — | bc |
| 22 | se | 30.24 | — | 9.0 | — | — | bc |
| 23 | se | 30.24 | — | 7.5 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | se | 30.23 | — | 5.7 | — | — | bc |
