Latitude by observation N. 73° 29'
Longitude by chronometer W. 178° 46' 
Lines of position ✱✱ Jupiter and Capella about 7.45pm

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: 290 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 48 tons 1018 lbs 

Max. temperature = -5°
Min. temperature = -15°

The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and such water as filters aft, through 
and under the bulkhead, is pumped out by hand at the bilge pump attached to the main engine.
The steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling. 
Sounded in 30 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift being indicated by the lead line. 
At 10am the ship was inspected by the Commanding Officer, after which divine service was performed 
in the cabin.
Weather clear, bright and cold. Light westerly breezes, and steady barometer, and almost cloudless sky.
At midnight one half of the sky was covered by cumulo-stratus clouds moving from N. to S. and at that 
moment extending from the zenith to the southern horizon obscuring the moon and the stars. (North of 
the zenith the sky was clear, except a streak of cirro-stratus above a small bank of rising cumulo-stratus) 
Immediately following the cumulo-stratus clouds and near the zenith was a faint auroral arch extending 
from east to west, with its ends slightly curving to the southward and hidden by the clouds near the 
horizon. As the clouds nearly uncovered the east end, a mass of bright green light shot up, and spread 
like a fan over 10° of arc; and just as the east end was completely uncovered the mass changed into 
brilliant green spiral curtains terminating a bright white arch through zenith to west. After perhaps a 
minute, the clouds being well clear of the arch, the light paled and lost colors, and the arch-ends 
straggled back to N.W. and N.E., the center being at the zenith. The moon then became entirely 
uncovered, the floe seemed lighted as in mid day, and but few faint streaks of arches remained, thin and 
almost indeterminate. 

Moon 15° N. 
Full moon