UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN. 365 



Inspected the ship at ten a. m., and then read divine 

 service in the cabin. Otherwise the day passed without 

 any eventful occurrence. While the wind blows so 

 fresh, and to prevent future accident, two of the wings 

 of the windmill have been removed, and we find that 

 all the pumping is easily done by the two remaining. 

 While it was undergoing repairs, the tin sails were so 

 arranged as to be removable at will, and stay bands of 

 flat iron were substituted for the wire rods. We have 

 now, therefore, a more perfect and at the same time 

 more durable machine. 



3Iay 2ith, Monday. — A disagreeable discovery was 

 made to-day, which will be more or less serious when 

 we have ascertained a cause. Three little streams of 

 water were found running into the shaft alley on the 

 starboard side, just forward of where the line of the 

 mizzen-mast would be if prolonged. The three streams 

 if united w ould form a column three quarters of an inch 

 in diameter. As no pressure has been experienced since 

 January 19th, the date of our mishap, it is difficult to 

 believe that it is caused by a leak, and it is rather too 

 much water to be accounted for by the supposition that 

 the accumulations of ice among- the frames have com- 



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menced to melt. We shall have to await further devel- 

 opments before coming to a conclusion, and meanwhile 

 it is one more added to my many cares and anxieties. 



Observations to-day place us in latitude N. 73^ 49' 

 47'', longitude E. 177° 40', a drift of nine and a half 

 miles N. 55° W. since yesterday. We are beginning to 

 deepen our water also, getting thirty fathoms to-day. 

 I am somewhat in hopes that we may eventually drift 

 past this shallow part of the ocean, and reach a depth 

 of water which will permit a breaking-up of the ice, 

 and insure our liberation in time to accomplish some- 

 thincr this season. 



