150 HEATING APPARATUS CONDEMNED. 



has been already mentioned oftener than I could 

 wish. In spite of every attention, our trouble- 

 some warming apparatus could not be made to 

 answer. Scarcely did it begin to throw out a 

 little heat than one pipe or other gradually 

 cooled, and left us teeming with vapour which it 

 had just had the power to generate. Not a day 

 passed without a complaint of its inefficiency. 

 In its best state the officers' cabins were drip- 

 ping, and a stove was necessary to dry the deck. 

 I had been most reluctant to abandon it 

 altogether, but at last, on repeated represen- 

 tations of its failure, I issued an official order 

 to the proper officers to survey it, and on their 

 report pronouncing its condemnation, I directed 

 the furnace and its appurtenances to be dis- 

 mantled, and availed myself of the lead and cop- 

 per attached to it, for fitting up a Fraser's stove 

 a little before the main-hatchway on the lower 

 deck. 



November 16th. We continued to move ac- 

 cording to the direction of the wind, off the 

 point of Cape Comfort, with some holes of water 

 round the pack, caused by its own motion, but 

 did not get beyond it, either to the east or to the 

 west. I examined the recently formed ice near 

 the land, which w T as broken into slabs, and piled 

 up in the utmost confusion, so steep and irre- 

 gular as to be almost impassable. Just at the 



