Entry Index: 713
Position: No position
Date by Position: 8 June 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: 255 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 15 tons 193 lbs Max. temperature = 17.5° Min. temperature = 12° The pumping throughout the day is done by the wind mill pump. The steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling. Sounded in 37 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift to W.S.W. being indicated by the lead line. Weather dull and gloomy with occasional fog. Moderate N.E. breezes, steady barometer and uniformly changing temperature. An almost steady fall of light snow. So thick was the fog until 10am that our position with reference to Henrietta Island could not be determined. But at that hour the fog cleared away and the island was sighted right ahead and at a distance of about 4 miles. As indicated yesterday we were being drifted across the north face. The following bearings were taken at 10am and 8pm: 10am 8pm Ship's head S. 8° 00' W. true S. 8° 00' W. true Glacier Point S. 4° 30' W. true hidden Glacier edges S. 5° 30' W. true, S. 6° 00' W. hidden Black Head S. 7° 30' W. true S. 19° 30' E. true 1st cliff S. 17° 00' W. true S. 9° 30' E. true 2nd cliff S. 19° 30' W. true S. 7° 30' E. true and a new point opened to view, probably S.W. end S. 3° 30' E. true All of the large openings near us have closed; and the general appearance of the ice to the west and N.W. is that of an immense field broken up in many places by the large piles of broken floe pieces, but with no water spaces. Considerable water sky is visible to the S. and S.W., and several unconnected lanes of water are to be seen in those directions. The ice having passed the obstruction caused by Henrietta Island has closed up again and resumed its accustomed drift to the N.W. Moon 14° S. First quarter
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At ten a.m. the fog cleared away for the first time since five p.m. yesterday, and we saw the island right ahead (S. 80° W. true), and about four miles distant. We were clearly in transit across the north face of the island, and so steadily did we move that it was easy to check our flying-jib stay as it passed slowly from point to point. The confusion worse confounded of yesterday was tranquillized, though many ridges of piled up floe pieces between us and Henrietta Island showed that the fight must have gone on all night, as our fields ground and ploughed their way along. Many of the large water spaces had closed tightly, and the very large one which was on the west side of our ice-island had disappeared. A long ridge of ice-slabs and blocks six and seven feet thick had fenced us in on that side, showing where a meeting had taken place and a crush had occurred, of which we had been quite unconscious, though it was only one hundred and fifty yards distant. Considerable water-sky was visible to the southward and south-west, and several unconnected lanes were to be seen in those directions. The ice having passed the obstruction caused by Henrietta Island had seemingly closed up again and resumed its accustomed drift N.W. In that direction the ice extended in a limitless field.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | ene | 30.18 | 57.0 | 16.5 | — | — | ocfs |
| 9 | ene | 30.18 | 58.0 | 17.5 | — | — | ocfs |
| 12 | ene | 30.16 | 54.0 | 16.0 | — | — | ocfs |
| 15 | ne | 30.16 | 57.0 | 16.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 18 | ene | 30.16 | 56.0 | 15.5 | — | — | oc |
| 21 | ene | 30.16 | 60.0 | 15.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 24 | ne | 30.15 | 58.0 | 14.0 | — | — | ocs |
