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to meet my eye. The seven measures
taken on their arrival have effectually
subdued them.

(Cleaning Stove Pipe )
K.

Wednes.
Jany. 3.

I was obliged to stop on account of
[the stove - the wonder being not that
my journal is so defaced but that I
manage to keep it at all readable.]
We have now Eighteen men in a clean area of
20 by 16 feet. Even at home this
would appear destructive to health and
cleanliness. One may judge what expedients
labour and devices it costs me here.

At 7. P.M. the forward sleepers are
obliged to rise, their buffalo robes taken
on deck, shaken and restacked below
their platforms, are packed up and
their apartment thoroughly cleansed.
The same takes place with the after division
[Save and except always intractable so
and now in my eyes contemptible Mr.
Goodfellow ] At 7 1.2 the Tossut and
the two scuttles are opened and a thorough
ventilation established while the breakfast
fire is hot. By 8. we breakfast and
thence carry on a routine day.

The new comers are obliged to cut
ice, prepare meats and otherwise contribute
to the eating concerns of
their own body, but are not employed
on a single ship duty. [They are kept essentially
[distract?] retaining the position
which they voluntarily assumed when
they left the Brig. That of leaving
the Expedition.]