Entry Index: 343
Position: No position
Date by Position: 3 June 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: 145 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 59 tons 193 lbs The pumping is done by the wind mill driving the "boiler tube pump", and the Baxter boiler is used for distilling. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At fire room bilge 4 inches 4 inches 5 inches Sounded at noon in 34 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A very rapid drift to N. x E. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Engaged in taking down deck house. Finished painting inside of galley house. Gloomy and disagreeable weather. Brisk variable winds, backing from S.W. to southerly and easterly, and toward midnight veering again to W'd and moderating. Slowly falling barometer, rising with veering wind. Nearly uniform temperature. Occasional falls of snow which was driven in clouds by the brisk winds. Moon 14° N. Last quarter
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Although the surface of our floe is soft and mushy, and we can see it waste away, and though the water is all around our ditch, we seem to be no nearer liberation. The ice at the sounding hole is yet forty-eight inches thick, and the body of the ship seems to be held firmly by ice which does not thaw, with such a layer of water on top of it as our ditch shows. That waste does occur to the surface of the floe is evident, not only from the sinking of ashes and dirt, but from the appearance again on the surface of objects which were long since buried. This seems to afford the dogs great satisfaction, for they occasionally unearth things which they buried months ago, and thus lost, which they now find to enjoy to their hearts' content.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wsw | 29.59 | — | 25.0 | — | — | oc |
| 2 | swxs | 29.6 | — | 26.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 3 | sw | 29.6 | — | 25.0 | — | — | bc |
| 4 | swxs | 29.6 | — | 25.5 | — | — | oc |
| 5 | swxs | 29.61 | — | 25.0 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | swxs | 29.61 | — | 26.0 | — | — | oc |
| 7 | s | 29.6 | — | 26.0 | — | — | oc |
| 8 | s | 29.59 | — | 26.0 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | s | 29.57 | — | 27.0 | — | — | oc |
| 10 | sse | 29.56 | — | 26.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 11 | sse | 29.59 | — | 27.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 12 | sse | 29.53 | — | 27.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 13 | sse | 29.49 | — | 27.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 14 | sxe | 29.52 | — | 27.7 | — | — | ocs |
| 15 | sxe | 29.48 | — | 27.0 | — | — | ocsq |
| 16 | sxe | 29.47 | — | 27.5 | — | — | ocsq |
| 17 | s | 29.46 | — | 29.0 | — | — | ocsq |
| 18 | s | 29.47 | — | 30.0 | — | — | ocsq |
| 19 | ssw | 29.48 | — | 31.0 | — | — | ocqz |
| 20 | ssw | 29.51 | — | 32.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | sw | 29.53 | — | 33.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 22 | ssw | 29.56 | — | 32.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 23 | w | 29.59 | — | 31.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | wnw | 29.61 | — | 30.0 | — | — | bcz |
