50/60 The noon position on the 26th was lat. 17ｰ 36ｴ W.We made another sounding on this day with the Lucas machine and found bottom at 2819 fathoms. The specimen brought up was a terrigenous blue mud (glacial deposit) with some radiolaria. Every one took turns at the work of heaving in, two men working together in ten-minute spells. The southerly gale was blowing the snow in clouds off the floe and the temperature had fallen to 23ｰ Fahr. |