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heat. This sounds queer, but it is quite correct. So 

 generally are we accustomed to cold, and warmly clad 

 in consequence, that a change like to-day gives one a 

 lazy, drowsy feeling not easily overcome. A range of 

 32° is considerable, and would occasion remark at any 

 time at home. 



January IWi, Wednesday. — One year ago to-day 

 we had our serious trouble with the ice and received 

 our injuries. Since that time the water has steadily 

 come into the ship, and has been as steadily pumped 

 out. Chipp kept a record of the number of pump- 

 strokes to-day, and determines our leak to be 2,692 gal- 

 lons for these twenty-four hours, or 112& gallons per 

 hour. Weather generally dull and gloomy until three 

 p. m. ; bright and pleasant thereafter. To-day at noon 

 I could read the instruments on the floe without a lan- 

 tern for the first time this year. At ten p. m. a brilliant 

 aurora. 



January 20th, Thursday. — A very cold day, but, ow- 

 ing to the absence of wind, not an uncomfortable one. 

 I have made it a rule to suspend the enforced exercise 

 from eleven to one whenever the temperature is below 

 minus 30°, and in extreme cases of gales of wind have 

 extended the suspension with warmer temperature. 

 Though not enforced, the taking of exercise seems to 

 be adhered to for an hour at least, under even these un- 

 favorable circumstances. The thing is left to individual 

 option. To-day, while the thermometer stood at minus 

 44.5°, officers and men were walking around on the floe 

 as unconcernedly as if we had had a spring day common 

 to the latitude of New York. It is a matter of congrat- 

 ulation thus far that we have not had a single case of 

 serious frost-bite. 



January 21st, Friday. — Another very cold day, and 



