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about considerably, and only a little water could be got through 
the engine-room pumps. The hand pump had been kept going all 
night, but during the morning also choked, and as soon as there 
was a little water in the well, it lifted a plate in the engine-room 
during one of the ship’s bad heels and let all the ashes and coal 
down into the well. Both bunker doors had to be shut and could 
not be opened with safety; engines were stopped and steam kept 
for the bilge pump, whose suction was with great difficulty kept 
partially free by Mr. Williams. He kept a perforated enamel 
jug on the end of the suction, and stopping the pump every two 
or three minutes as the suction choked, removed and cleared the 
jug, replaced it and then restarted the pump; this process having 
to be kept up the whole time the hand pumps were being seen to. 
To accomplish his object Williams had to lie flat on the boiler- 
room plates, and when the ship listed to starboard, stretch right 
down with his head below the plates and clear as much coal away 
from round the suction as possible. This often meant that the 
water surged back before he could get his head out, and there 
can be few nastier liquids to be ducked in than that very dirty 
bilge-water. 
Meanwhile for the hand pumps Davies had to take off the 
bottom lengths of the suction pipes, lift them, and clear them 
from below. To do this the flange rivets had to be bored 
out, and it took eight hours’ incessant work to finish the 
job. 
During the re-fitting at Lyttelton pumps and everything con- 
nected with them were thoroughly overhauled in all respects and 
never gave serious trouble again. 
Paterson Inlet was made on March 28 and Lyttelton on 
April r. 
Throughout all her cruise the scientific side of the ship’s work 
was undertaken as follows: Lillie had all the biological work and 
Rennick was solely in charge of the soundings, and it can be 
safely said that neither of them missed a single opportunity that 
offered; 
Meteorological Log: Drake; 
Zoological Log: Bruce; 
Magnetic Log and Current Log: Pennell; 
while the officer of the watch, at the time, kept a general lookout 
for anything of interest that might occur. 
