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a private kitchen. Tlie two berths for steward and 

 cook were neatly curtained off, and it would require a 

 critical examination to reveal the fact that these two 

 men slept there. The engine-room and shaft alley were 

 clean and dry. The starboard boiler has been finished 

 with its overhauling, and both boilers are now thor- 

 oughly scaled and ready for use. Instead of taking 

 the engine apart for laying up, it has been kept intact ; 

 and as the engine-shaft can be disconnected from the 

 screw-shaft, the engines can be turned over every day, 

 moving all parts. The two shafts are connected by 

 shoulders and four bolts, two of wdiich are replaced as 

 soon as the engine is turned over, and the other two 

 are kept ready for immediately putting back. During 

 the coming week the engines will be painted. The ven- 

 tilation of the ward-room seems improved since the 

 boring of the holes through into the cabin, and the 

 keeping of a lighted lamp in the ward-room stove. In 

 the cabin the air is good enough, except at night, when 

 the wretched Walton lamp smokes so as to fill it. 

 Melville has made a tin pipe four inches in diameter, per- 

 forated with half-inch holes, and fitted it into the sky- 

 light cover, and this works well without depriving us 

 of the light. The frame of the deck-house is all up 

 and the roof on. Nearly all the siding is in place, and 

 during the coming week the ends will be closed in, the 

 inside felted, and the electric engine and generator put 

 together and tried with walrus blubber. 



After inspection held divine service. 



The coal account is satisfactory, showing even greater 

 economy than last week, the fuel burned for heating 

 and cooking being 1,280 pounds against 1,425 pounds 

 consumed last week. Aneguin to-day added a seal to 

 our provisions. 



