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fore Yieak. This, at all events, is what he is under- 

 taking ; but if not immediately successful, I shall bore 

 through the ceiling below and let the water come out 

 into the fore peak directly. Men cannot keep their 

 health in the wet and damp now on our berth deck. 

 The drip from condensation is also very bad, the two 

 forward and two after berths requiring rubber blan- 

 kets suspended over them to save the bedding from 

 getting wet. Verily, all our troubles are coming upon 

 us at once. 



Usual Sunday inspection at one, and divine service at 

 1.30. The ice began to get uneasy, giving us several 

 severe shocks before midnight. 



February \Wi, Monday. — Since getting the sea-wa- 

 ter through the Kingston to the steam-cutter's boiler, 

 instead of feeding it directly from the bilge, we have no 

 trouble about our distilled water. As the boiler has a 

 little steam-drum on top of it, no salt is carried over 

 from it fo the coils, and we are now enjoying almost 

 chemically pure water. We are not expending fuel 

 for this purpose alone, however, because steam is nec- 

 essarily kept all the time on this boiler to keep the fire- 

 room dry. 



Between midnight and four p. m. we received several 

 severe shocks from ice pressure. When the walking 

 parties went out at noon they discovered, about half a 

 mile to the northward of the ship, a long lane of water. 

 Sweetman was partially successful in stopping the weep- 

 ing of the water along the berth deck. 



February 17th, Tuesday. — Our poor dogs suffer the 

 most in all this trouble in getting the pumps to work 

 with but a small consumption of fuel. While we had 

 steam on the main boiler, we were able to steam the 

 concentrated dog food received at St. Michaefs, and 



