THE DEAD OF WINTER. 227 



At step of foremast 

 At auxiliary pump suction, 

 just forward chain lockers 

 At after bulkhead fore hold 

 At fire-room bilge 



The day opened clear excepting a bank of curaulo- 

 stratus and stratus clouds to W. and S. W. Eising 

 barometer from 30.05 to 30.28, and temperature falling 

 to minus 37° at noon and rising to minus 28° at mid- 

 night. Early daylight at 7.30. High dawn. At noon 

 rosy flush in sky to southward, showing clearly the 

 position of the sun. 



Danenhower's case has so far become worse that the 

 doctor to-day informed me that unless an operation 

 were performed he would in all probability lose the 

 sight of his left eye. The circumstances of our sur- 

 roundings, the poor accommodations for sick people, 

 and the possible emergency of our having to abandon 

 the ship and take to the floe, make the performance of 

 the necessary operation a risky affair for Danenhower. 

 For, should he be exposed to hardships and privations 

 incidental to a march over the ice, he would quite 

 probably lose the eye. Under the circumstances I ad- 

 vised the doctor to g-ive Danenhower a voice in decid- 

 ing for or against the operation. After some consider- 

 ation Danenhower decided to have it done, and it was 

 beautifully performed by Dr. Ambler, and borne with 

 heroic endurance by the patient. I hardly knew which 

 to admire the most, the skill and celerity of the sur- 

 geon, or the nerve and endurance of Danenhower. 



January 2od, Friday. — A continuance of the same 

 story : a leaky ship requiring all our endeavors to keep 

 her free. The auxiliary steam-pump in the old galley- 



