Entry Index: 378
Position: No position
Date by Position: 8 July 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: 0 gallons Water remaining on hand fit for use at Noon: melted ice 400 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 170 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 56 tons 638 lbs The pumping is done by hand at the quarter deck bilge pump. A tank full of melted snow of sufficient purity for drinking and cooking purposes having been secured, the distilling is discontinued. Sounded in 23 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift to west being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Foggy and gloomy weather. Light S.E. winds dying out toward midnight. Slowly falling followed by slowly rising barometer and uniform temperature. Moon 19° N. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
The running of the water over the floes in long lanes has made regular sluice ways through which the meltings run to find the sea-level. Our old sounding hole, about one hundred yards on the starboard quarter, offers an access to the sea, and several streams have scoured a way or had a way made for them. This running water has wasted the ice away until at the edges of the hole it is but two feet thick, and covered with six inches of water swirling about like a maelstrom. Through this we can see the seeming black cavern below, and in the monotony which hangs around us I almost feel tempted to jump down it to see where it goes to.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ese | 29.46 | — | 34.0 | — | — | oc |
| 2 | sexe | 29.42 | — | 34.2 | — | — | bc |
| 3 | sexe | 29.41 | — | 35.0 | — | — | oc |
| 4 | se | 29.4 | — | 35.0 | — | — | oc |
| 5 | ese | 29.39 | — | 35.5 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | ese | 29.39 | — | 35.0 | — | — | ocpd |
| 7 | sexe | 29.41 | — | 35.0 | — | — | ocr |
| 8 | sexe | 29.41 | — | 35.0 | — | — | ocr |
| 9 | sexe | 29.4 | — | 34.5 | — | — | ocr |
| 10 | sexe | 29.42 | — | 34.5 | — | — | oc |
| 11 | sexe | 29.41 | — | 35.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 12 | sexe | 29.42 | — | 35.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 13 | sxe | 29.41 | — | 35.3 | — | — | ocfr |
| 14 | s | 29.42 | — | 35.0 | — | — | ocfr |
| 15 | s | 29.43 | — | 35.5 | — | — | ocfr |
| 16 | swxs | 29.44 | — | 35.3 | — | — | ocf |
| 17 | swxs | 29.43 | — | 34.8 | — | — | ocf |
| 18 | sxw | 29.44 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 19 | s | 29.45 | — | 34.5 | — | — | ocfr |
| 20 | s | 29.46 | — | 34.5 | — | — | ocfr |
| 21 | s | 29.47 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ocfr |
| 22 | s | 29.47 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ocfr |
| 23 | calm | 29.47 | — | 33.5 | — | — | ocfm |
| 24 | calm | 29.47 | — | 33.5 | — | — | ocfm |
