"The interior boards that it had (107) been faced by Georges(?) Georgetown University, Washington, D.C." This board was one that would almost certainly have been destroyed or looted and the box been opened before. 8 October. Sunday. 8a, 8°; 12m, 7°; 4h, 8°; 8h, 11.7°; 12h, 10.9 min 5°. Max 15° C3, N3; C9, N4; O, N21; S, O; S, O Snowing briskly at and after 8 h. m. This will check the rapidity of the freezing, but perhaps the ice is strong enough now to hold its place, provided no heavy southwester comes within a few days. Walked around to the Por [illegible] to get two small monkey wrenches from the power boat for use in setting up the seismograph. Quiet day, not much work going on, it being Sunday. Concert in evening. Captain Corcoran has many tales to tell of the hard life on board a whaler and the hardships and impositions practised upon the sailors. The strange feature of it all, to me, is that he seems to justify such treatment, with all its cruelty, brutality and dishonesty. I could not help telling him to-day that he was doing his best to give the good opinion that I had had of him before starting on this voyage. He tries to bring us to acquiesce in his view of the matter, rather than to admit the jus- tice of any other viewpoint, just as he tries to make these Eskimos talk like "his" na- tives of Hudson Bay and curses those people because they are not like those. His "crows" are always the blackest. Codie was on the ice to-day.