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4 [[line]] Thursday, Aug.26, 1880 [[line]] [[page includes table with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[table headings:]] Time. | Bar. | Dct Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. |Water.| Wind. 4 A.M. | 30.05 | 43.5 | 44 | 44 | 44.5 | NE 8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]] | .08 | 46 | 46 | 46.5 | 45 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 12 M. | .10 | 45 | 46 | 46.5 | 45 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 4 P.M. | .00 | 46 | 47 | 47.5 | 45.5 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .08 | 45 | 46.5 | 47. | 45 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .10 | 45 | 49 | 48.5 | 44.5 | " [[ditto for: NE]] [[/table]] Weather mostly overcast, wind moderate steady. Came upon the S.E. edge of the pack about 2 A.M. while beating to the northward. Several whalers in sight. Pass several carcasses of whales stripped of their blubber and some small pieces of drift ice. About 3 P.M. spoke and boarded bark Hunter, Capt. Fisher of New Bedford with eleven whales one of which was cutting. A twelfth was being pursued as we left her, and was afterward taken. A little later speak to the U.S.S. Corwin from Pt. Barrow where she succeeded in getting, but reports only a quarter of a mile between the ice & the shore at the SeaHorse Islands. The capt. of the Hunter reported the ice in our vicinity as having moved inshore 15 [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] miles within 24 hours. Capt. Hooper got within a few miles of Herald Id. but had no news to report. [[end page]] [[start page]] 5 In view of the movements of the ice I decide to anchor and await further developements. Anchor about a mile offshore a little to the Northward and eastward of Pt. Belcher. Native canoes come alongside and we purchase a little fresh meat. [[line]] Friday Aug. 27/80. [[line]] [[page includes table with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[table headings:]] Time. | Barom.| Dct Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. |Water.| Wind. 4 A.M. | 30.09 | 42 | 45.0 | 45 | 44.5 | NE 8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]] | .08 | 41.5 | 44.5 | 44.5 | 45 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 12 M. | .04 | 41 | 42.5 | 42.5 | 45 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 4P.M. | 29.98 | 41 | 42.5 | 43. | 44.5 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .93 | 40 | 40.5 | 41. | 44.5 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .85 | 39 | 42.0 | 43. | 43.5 | " [[ditto for: NE]] [[/table]] Weather overcast. One glimpse of sun in P.M. but mostly foggy. Wind fresh & raw from the ice to the northward. Observations for dip intensity and magnetic azimuth. Astronomical observations fail from want of sunshine. There is much fragmentary coal on the beach, apparently pushed up by the pack ice from the bottom of the sea. Draw the seine but get only one or two small sculpin. In P.M. speak the steam whaler Mary & Helen, Capt. Owen
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See transcription center p. 5 of this project (p. 1 in notebook) for how to transcribe dittos, model for tables: https://transcription.si.edu/transcribe/6983/SIA-SIA2014-05216
