390 THE VOYAGE OF THE JE ANNETTE. 



E., and we have gone since yesterday S. 52° E. the 

 enormous distance of one mile ! I am ahnost disgusted 

 beyond redemption. To stand still would be bad enough, 

 but to go backward is worse. To-day I had to inflict 

 the first punishment of the cruise on Boyd, fireman, 

 giving him watch and watch for twenty-four hours in 

 the fire-room, for profane and abusive language to a 

 shipmate. A magnificent day for weather, — a tem- 

 perature of 41° at two p. M., and 34° at midnight. Not 

 a cloud from noon to midnight. Mr. Dunbar took the 

 dingy out to the long lead to-day, but found it all closed 

 up. No ducks, therefore, were brought back, but a Ross 

 gull, which, though quite rare in Europe and America, 

 is with us a drug almost, for we have seven. 



July 1st, Thursday. — We commenced a new month 

 with bright, pleasant weather, and almost cloudless sky, 

 light southerly wind, and a temperature ranging from 

 33° to 38°. And as an encouraging fact, our sights 

 show that we have drifted since yesterday two miles to 

 N. 40° E. Let us hope that it is the beginning of a new 

 era, and that we are now going to advance and no 

 longer retreat. Nearly ten months held fast in the ice, 

 but yet we are all here, and with two exceptions in 

 good health. Danenhower drags along in as uncertain 

 a condition as ever. Of late his eye has been accumu- 

 lating trouble and begun to affect its mate, and the doc- 

 tor has been compelled to cut and probe again daily as 

 he did early in the winter. Though Danenhower stands 

 the trial well, as far as his general health is concerned, 

 I fear he may not be able to stand the wear and tear of 

 another winter in the pack if we are unfortunate enough 

 to have to endure it. He is, of course, very thin and 

 bleached from his long confinement, but seems always 

 bright and cheerful, and speaks of getting back to duty 



