Entry Index: 635
Position: No position
Date by Position: 22 March 1881
Logbook Volume: 4 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 4
No observations 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: 360 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 25 tons 1558 lbs Max. temperature = -23.5° Min. temperature = -37° 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 in 68 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift W.N.W. being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally clear, bright and pleasant. Light easterly airs veering to south with slightly rising barometer and low temperature. Sunrise 5h 35m. Sunset 6h 25m. At midnight a single column of auroral light from E. horizon curving to the northward at an altitude of 45° and spreading out into a broad patch. A crack was found in the ice under the bows and under the stern, running in the direction of the keel, and the ice and snow walls alongside were found removed several inches from the ships side. From the doubling downward, however, the ice seems to cling closely to the ship. Moon 23° S. Full moon
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This morning we found a track ahead of the stem, and one leading astern, as if our floe were split in a line with the keel. At the same time we noticed that our snow walls were an inch or two away from the sides, as if an opening and spreading outward were about to occur. We can but await developments, as we did in the fall of 1879, for I have long since ceased to build any castles in the air on probabilities or possibilities.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | exn | 30.28 | 44.0 | -32.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | exn | 30.26 | 40.0 | -31.5 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | sexe | 30.29 | 51.0 | -28.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | sexe | 30.25 | 37.0 | -26.5 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | sexe | 30.28 | 52.0 | -23.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | sexe | 30.3 | 55.0 | -26.5 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | s | 30.32 | 56.0 | -33.0 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | s | 30.33 | 54.0 | -37.0 | — | — | bc |
