THE JOURNAL OF JOHN BISCOE. 813 
out again to the northward, At noon, latitude 59° 13' S., longitude 
7° 50’ W. During all this night and the 16th the wind, with the 
exception of intervals of calm, was from the §.W. with very fine 
weather. 
Jan. 16.—We were employed coasting along the ice, and at noon 
had made an E. course 50 miles, with 58 icebergs in sight. Thermo- 
meter in the air 45°, water 34°, but in the sun it immediately rose to 
77°; in fact it appeared more like a summer in England than what I 
had expected in these latitudes, and since the first day of making 
Sandwich Land we had had but two strong winds, both of which were 
from the 8.W. The weather has been repeatedly thick, but in other 
respects remarkably fine, and the winds light. On coming into these 
latitudes I had sent down the foretopgallant-yard and mast, studding- 
sail booms, &c., but have since found it absolutely necessary to send 
them up again. 
Jan 17.—At noon we had made a southerly course of 60°, being now 
in latitude 60° 12', longitude, chronometers, 7° 00’ 00" W. No field-ice 
in sight, and very few icebergs, variation by amplitude 11° 30' W., 
thermometer, air 44°, water 36°, in the sun 60°. The wind light from 
8.W., and continued so from the southward and S.W. until the forenoon 
of the 18th, when it became fresh and steady from S.W., but brought 
but little sea up. The difference between the latitude by account and 
observation was 11 miles, which I think must arise from the great 
increase of variation west, judging from the last amplitudes. We have 
nearly a clear sea, only six or seven icebergs in sight from the mast- 
head, and in all probability have got to the southward of the main 
body of the ice. Our latitude at noon, 61° 2’, longitude 4° 86’ W.; 
thermometer, air 35°, water 33°. Some showers of snow. Only a few 
small petrels in sight. 
Jan. 19.—Steady and fresh breezes from the W.S.W., but during the 
night hauled round to the northward, and from that to E.N.E. and east, 
and blew fresh all the 20th. At noon our latitude was 64° 34' S., 
longitude by chronometers 00° 15’ 15" W., variation, computed from 
the courses 15° W., a northerly set of 26' during the last three days. 
We are continually passing ice-islands, some very large, with drift 
pieces of ice, but have never more than ten or fifteen in sight at one 
tiwe. I should think we pass 150 every 24 hours. Scarcely any birds 
to be seen. Yesterday we saw 2 nellies and one albatross, being the 
first since leaving the latitude of South Georgia. The mornings and 
evenings are in general very cloudy. No amplitudes, nor have I been 
able to get a lunar for a great length of time. During the latter part 
of the night the wind came round to the §8.E. At 8 a.m. we had only 
1 ice-island in sight. 
Jan, 21.—a.M. One ice-island in sight. Saw a nelly and two or three 
spotted eaglets with some blue petrel. Noon, latitude 66° 16’, longitude 
