The house has been opened by order when the temperature has fallen below 28 deg..

I thought the effect would be to 'harden up' the meat, but apparently we need air circulation.

When the temperature goes down to-night we shall probably take the beef out of the house and put a wind sail in to clear the atmosphere.

If this does not improve matters we must hang more carcasses in the rigging.
_Later_, 6 P.M .-- The wind has backed from S.E.to E.S.E.and the swell is going down--this seems to argue open water in the first but not in the second direction and that the course we pursue is a good one on the whole.
The sky is clearing but the wind still gusty, force 4 to 7; the ice has frozen a little and we've made no progress since noon.
9 P.M .-- One of the ponies went down to-night.

He has been down before.