475 11 December. Saturday. Overcast till after noon, beginning to clear about 2 p.m. Wind decreasing to moderate strength. Temp. min +4°; 9a. +17°; 2(?)p. +11°; 8p.+7° Sent canisters ashore by I netlake to be repaired. The rabbit skin stockings are very tender and the skin breaks easily, On board all day for lack of canisters and on account of dark and disagree- able character of the midday hours. The engineer told me to-day that he un- derstood that last year the fly wheel broke in the hub just as this one did this year. He says that the old wheel, being loose, were a depression in the crank shaft which made it impossible to fit on a new wheel without turning down the shaft beyond the depression. A wheel that would go over the outer end of the shaft would be loose in the position where it belonged, and that was the