Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 40' 19"
Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun no observation

Using melted ice
Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 110 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 53 tons 188 lbs 

Max. temperature = 27°
Min. temperature = 16.2°

The pumping is done by the wind mill and (in order to prevent the pumps freezing) occasionally by hand 
at the quarter deck bilge pumps.
Sounded in 39 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No perceptible drift being indicated by the lead line. Lowered 
and hauled the dredge with no result; and in consequence of the low temperature the hauling of the 
dredge and taking of water temperatures are for the present discontinued.
Hoisted out the steam cutter and placed her at the cutter's davits on the port side; the cutter being 
shifted to the dinghy's davits after the metallic dingy had been lowered on the ice. 
The closing-in of the deck house continues. The thrumming of the topsail made ready for the fore foot is 
completed.
Weather changing somewhat about noon and midnight, but generally cloudy and dull. A moderate S.W. 
breeze dies away about 7am and is succeeded by the freshening northerly wind. Barometer rises 
steadily, and after noon the temperature falls to an uncomfortable extent.
Fires were started in the stoves of cabin and berth deck during the afternoon.
The ice on the edges of the old lead at one time making our floe an island, was in motion to the S.W. of 
the ship this afternoon.

Moon 17° S. 
New moon