Entry Index: 332
Position: 73.62, 178.29
Date by Position: 23 May 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 37' 7" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun E. 178° 17' 30" 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: 60 tons 808 lbs Maximum temperature indicated by B.B. in vacuo = 109.5° at 2pm The pumping is done by the wind mill driving the bilge pump in the corner of the fire room hatch. The distilling is done by the Baxter boiler. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight 4 inches 5 inches 4 inches Sounded at noon in 26 fathoms, mud and fine grey sand, a drift to west being indicated by the lead line. Sent out a dog sled to bring in the bear killed yesterday. The weight of the carcass as skinned, cleaned and dressed was 425 lbs. Carpenters engaged in making a pump brake for new boiler tube pump, and engineer's force occupied in the construction of said pump. Weather clear, bright and pleasant until 7pm when the sky became cloudy. Brisk easterly and south- easterly winds and rising temperature. Slightly variable temperature. At midnight a heavy water sky from E. around by south to west. Moon 22° S. First quarter
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This morning Melville and myself, accompanied by Aniguin, took a team of eighteen dogs and went out to bring in the bear killed yesterday. Upon reaching the young ice and proceeding along it for a mile, we found it had opened so much as to make us take to the rough ice for about a quarter of a mile to avoid it. Reaching the bear, we soon had him loaded on the sled and started back. So thin was the young ice, that the weight (425 pounds) of the cleaned and dressed carcass added to our weights caused the whole surface to vibrate more than once, and finally it broke under us. We had such speed on at the time that only the rear end of the sled went through, so we escaped a ducking and the probable loss of the meat. Reaching the place in the rough ice where we had to turn off, we had a terrible time in store for us. With only the weight of the dead bear on the sled, the combined work of three men and eighteen dogs consumed an hour in getting over that quarter mile. The dogs pulled willingly enough, for they were homeward bound (and I notice that a difference of one hundred per cent, depends on that fact), and resented the delay by howling and surging at the harness until I thought the drag-rope would part. One minute the sled would be on one side of an uplifted floe piece and the dogs on the other, with a sharp ridge between. When by sheer strength we had pushed it up and over, it would plunge down the other side and stick in a hole heels up. Then we had to dig it out with our hands, and give it another start; then it would fall, one runner in a crack, and so on. Repeat these things in all shapes and varieties and they will give a faint idea. Suffice it to say, that at the end of the hour when we reached smooth ice again we were streaming with perspiration and almost exhausted.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ene | 29.98 | — | 16.0 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | ene | 29.99 | — | 15.5 | — | — | bz |
| 3 | ene | 29.99 | — | 15.0 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | exn | 29.98 | — | 16.0 | — | — | bz |
| 5 | exn | 29.98 | — | 17.0 | — | — | b |
| 6 | exn | 29.99 | — | 18.5 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | exn | 29.99 | — | 19.5 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | exn | 29.99 | — | 21.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | exn | 29.99 | — | 22.0 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | exn | 30.0 | — | 23.5 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | exn | 30.02 | — | 24.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | exn | 30.02 | — | 26.0 | — | — | bc |
| 13 | exn | 29.99 | — | 26.2 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | e | 30.0 | — | 27.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | ese | 30.01 | — | 27.5 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | ese | 30.01 | — | 27.7 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | se | 30.03 | — | 26.8 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | exs | 30.04 | — | 26.0 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | ese | 30.05 | — | 25.5 | — | — | oc |
| 20 | sexe | 30.06 | — | 25.2 | — | — | oc |
| 21 | sexe | 30.07 | — | 25.0 | — | — | oc |
| 22 | sexe | 30.08 | — | 24.0 | — | — | oc |
| 23 | sexe | 30.09 | — | 23.0 | — | — | oc |
| 24 | sexe | 30.1 | — | 23.0 | — | — | oc |
