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Continued from preceding Page [[preprinted blue page number: 33]] Mon Ap. 15/61 [[double underlined]]Mon. Ap. 15/61[[/double underlined]] [[two column box]] [[left column]] Return to base of Obs Mt. to point I left Sea Ice to go up. Now direct for Home Bearing of Obs. Mt. from my starting point for home Obs. Mt. - - - 288° Paces Course 700 170° 300 144 [[wavy line]] Obstn Pt. - - - 326° Grinnell Mt - - 304 Snow Bluff - - 43 Top of Incline Plane 69 Peak of Mt entered above and "to the right" - 363 [[/left column]] [[right column]] Paces Course 600 144° [[image: inverted V with pennant on top]] [[wavy line]] Vessel 160° Obstn Mt - - 331 Grinnell Mt 314 C.W. Field Mt 349 Buddington Mt 176 [wavy line]] Paces Course to ship 5270 160° [[line]] [[double underlined]]Arrived on Board 7 P.M.[[/double underlined]] [[/right column]] [[/box]] [[wavy line across page]] Tues. Ap.16/61 (My First) [[underlined]]Observations taken with Pocket Sextant [[/underlined]] Tues [[strikethrough]]Wed[[/strikethrough]] Ap. 16.61 Mean Time Rescue Harb. h5..m6..s10 Dist. ☉ & ☽︎ [[sun & moon symbols]] - 72°.55' in ^[[calculated below]] True Alt. ☉ [[sun symbol]] 15°.25'.25" - Alt. of ☽︎ [[moon symbol]] Obs. - ^[[ [[?]] 99°.40']] 49°.50'.00" Result gives 64°.28' Long. W. of Rescue Hr. - [[in pencil]] ? Insert computation]] [[/in pencil]] [[wavy line across page]] Wed Ap. 17/61 Lunar Observation [[double underlined]]Wed Ap 17/61[[/double underlined]] Mean of six obs. Chron. Time Dist ☉| |☾︎| [[presumably indicating edges of sun & last quarter moon]] Alt. ☉[[underlined sun symbol, presumably indicating measured from bottom of arc]] Alt. ☽︎ [[underlined moon symbol, presumably indicating measured from bottom of arc]] h8.m30'.s55.3" 84°.32'.42.5" 22 [[in pencil]] see if not great error here - [[remainder half of page is blank]]
