IN THE BOATS. 715 



Issue for One Meal for Thirteen Men. 



4^ oz. tea. Pemmican, breakfast, 4§ lbs. 



8| oz. sugar. supper, 4§ lbs. 



8§ oz. coffee. dinner, 6-2- lbs. 



34 tablespoonfuls Liebig's 



extract. I65 lbs. 



Lime juice 1 oz. 



STARBOARD WATCH. PORT WATCH. 



Nindemann, Ericksen, 



Gortz, Lee, 



Alexey, Dressier, 



Iversen, Boyd, 



Kaack. Noros. 



August 21st, Sunday. — Called all hands at five. 

 Breakfasted at six. Last night Nindemann got sound- 

 ings in eight fathoms, — sand and mud. Rapid drift W. 

 This morning the soundings are the same, but there is 

 no drift. Fresh E. wind, but still much more moderate 

 than yesterday. Temperature 25°. 



So much ice has closed in around us that it looked 

 as if we had never been afloat at all, and though the 

 wind has moderated, we cannot resume our journey. 

 There are no leads for boating, and no floes for sled- 

 ding, and our surroundings seem as icy as ever. How- 

 ever, I know that a change of wind will scatter every- 

 thing again, and I most hope to make up for these two 

 lost clays, though, in my human judgment, I deplore 

 the loss of those three hours yesterday as a heavy 

 blow. 



Read divine service in my tent at ten a. m. At noon 

 got a meridian altitude. Latitude 75° 40", and making 

 yesterday's sight with this latitude, I get 147° 31' 30" 

 for the longitude. This puts us eighteen miles north of 



