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had, therefore, to take down the pipe and thaw it out. 

 This done, we tried again and got the pump to work, 

 but found the suction pipe too small. We then re- 

 moved the bilge suction pipe from the main engine and 

 attached it to the auxiliary pump, and then the pump 

 worked all right to my great satisfaction, for I was able 

 to give our tired men a rest. 



It was seven A. m. when we got the auxiliary pump 

 running, but we immediately succeeded in keeping the 

 water in check. By four p. m. we had got so much 

 ahead of the water that the fore peak was dry enough 

 to commence buildino; a small bulkhead abaft of the 

 bow-filling to stop the leak there to some extent. The 

 water seemed to flow aft to the engine-pump more 

 readily to-day, and by pumping fifteen minutes in every 

 half hour in the engine-room, they kept that part of 

 the ship free. Occasionally we would even get the 

 auxiliary pump to suck, and we then drove plugs in the 

 holes which we had bored in the forward bulkhead of 

 the fore hold, and thus blocked up water enough to 

 keep the auxiliary going all the time. This gave a 

 spell to the men in the engine-room, and Melville (who 

 will not sleep or rest) set them to work to make the 

 necessary forgings for his proposed connection of the 

 Baxter boiler to the forward spar deck bilge-pump. 



There was considerable ice movement during the day, 

 and tremendous pressure. The ship received many 

 severe shocks, but these did not seem to increase the 

 leak. I am rather inclined to think that a broken piece 

 of floe has been shoved under her, and that she has 

 been lifted above some of the pressure. She has risen 

 tw^o inches above her old line of flotation, which we 

 have determined by marks made where her snow em- 

 bankment came originally. The ship heels 3° to star- 



