602 covered to-day or yesterday that his theft of two boxes of candy from our box on the after deck had become known. Ek asked me last night, or this morning, wheth- er I had given or sold the chief any candy, saying that a box of peanut can- dy had been found in the engine room. Of course I had not and I told Ek so. To- day H.C.P. told me that Ben had report- ed to him that there were two boxes of candy in the engine room and that he (H.C.P.) had gone down there and found them concealed behind some of the chief's clothing. The box of chocolates was mostly gone, but only a little had been removed from the box of peanut candy. Too bad that the man should have descended to such petty thievery! The crew are a long distance yet from being hungry. One could easily forgive a hungry man for stealing food to satisfy his needs, but this is pretty small.