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ance of beef and pork was one pound and a quarter a 
man per day; five pounds of bread, two pints of flour, 
three of peas and two of barley a man per week. These 
allowances in a cold climate were rather scanty, but the 
uncertainty of the length of our voyage required the 
strictest economy.” 
Observations were made daily at noon whenever the 
sun appeared, and as Weddell had provided four of 
the best chronometers available for his own ship and was 
an expert in navigation his longitudes as well as his lati- 
tudes may be trusted. He also made a point of observ- 
ing and recording the temperature of the air and water 
and the variation of the compass each day. 
On February 6th and 7th about latitude 64° S. many 
ice islands were encountered, one of them estimated at 
two miles in length and 250 feet high. The wind blew 
from a westerly quarter and the weather was alternately 
foggy and clear, the temperature of the air at 8 p. m. was 
34 0 and that of the water 36°. Early on the morning 
of the 10th the mate of the Jane reported land in sight, 
and Weddell himself on seeing a dark sugar-loaf shaped 
object believed it to be a rock and expected to find the 
terra-fir ma beyond it ; but on making up to it and passing 
within 300 yards it was found to be merely the pinnacle of 
an iceberg so thickly incorporated with black earth as to 
present the appearance of a rock, an illusion strengthened 
by an island of clear ice from which it was “ detached 
above water though connected below.” The wind shifted 
to the south and blew a gale, a strong northwesterly cur- 
rent was running and the sailors began to grumble in 
their disappointment, for their wages were a proportion 
of the value of the catch and a new land meant a big haul 
of seals and increased pay. The position was just on the 
