Latitude by observation meridian altitude ✱ Aldebaran 6.30pm N. 74° 59'
Longitude by chronometer from observation time sight Venus E. 171° 56' 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: 290 lbs
Coal remaining on hand at noon: 31 tons 178 lbs 

Max. temperature = -0.5°
Min. temperature = -18.5°

The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and such water as filters aft through 
and under the bulkhead into the fire room is pumped out by hand at the bilge pump attached to the main 
engine.
The steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling.
Sounded at 10am in 57 fathoms. Brown mud. A very rapid drift to E. x N. being indicated by the lead 
line.
Weather bright and pleasant, and after 9am the sky was absolutely cloudless. The day opens with 
strong southerly winds which moderate rapidly after noon, and veer steadily reaching E.N.E. by midnight 
and there blowing in light airs. Barometer falls slowly until the wind in veering passes west when it rises 
rapidly. Steadily falling temperature.
Sunrise 9h 5m, sunset 3h 5m.
At 3am a very beautiful aurora was visible, and is thus described by Passed Assistant Surgeon Ambler: 
"An auroral curtain arch extended from N.W. x W. through the zenith to S.E. x E. It was composed of 
striae of great brilliancy, while between them were masses of luminous nebulae not so intense in 
brightness. The lower edge of the whole arch was frequently interrupted in its regular form, as if made 
up of rays of greater intensity and longer axes than the luminous nebulae before referred to. Pulsations 
of the most brilliant purple, green, and white colors went from one end to the other. As I looked, the arch 
flashed into a corona. The rays ascended, forming as they lengthened, a hollow cane into the inside of 
which I could see. The most rapid change of color took place up and down the side of the cane (the 
colors being more beautiful than I ever saw them) and most brilliant at the apex. The angle of inclination 
of the striae corresponded seemingly with the angle of the dipping-needle." 
At 9pm three irregular auroral bands from S.E. to N.W. 20°, 30° and 40° respectively above the southern 
horizon; and at midnight a bright curtain arch, 15° above northern horizon, from N.W. to N.E., and a faint 
curtain arch 15° above southern horizon from S.W. to S.E. 

Moon 2° S. 
Full moon