JEANNETTE INQUIRY.	877
position to determine the extent and character of our drift, and its connection with the direction and force of the wind. *
A change in the routine is made for the spring and summer. When we are moving again some modifications will occur.
April 2d, Friday.—Daily routine, commencing April 1st, 1881: 5.00 A. M. Call ship's cook and cabin steward.
	5.45	Call executive officer.
	7.00	Call all hands.
	7.30	Breakfast by watches.
	8.30	Turn to; clear up decks ; clear fire-hole ; get soundings, &c.
	9.00	Watch below to go hunting.
	9.30	Clear forecastle; open doors and scuttle for ventilation until 11.30; inspection by executive.
	11.00	Hoist the recall flag at the fore.
12.00 M. Dinner by watches.
1.00 P.M. Turn to; watch below to go hunting.
	5.00	Hoist recall flag at the main.
	5.30	Supper by watches.
	6.30	Turn to.
	8.00	Boatswain and carpenters report the departments.
	9.00	Open forecastle doors, and partly open scuttle until morning.
	10.00	Lights out in forecastle; noise and smoking to cease.
By this new routine we still have but two cooked meals a day. The tea water for supper is boiled on the fire in the stove in the cabin and berth (leek as heretofore since November 1. This arrangement will hold good as long as we keep the stoves going. But as I shall stop them as soon as we can safely (not comfortably) do without them, in order to save every lump of coal, some other way of boiling the tea-water has to be devised. While Melville and I were talking it over to-night, we thought it would be possible to make a little fire in the observatory stove down in the fire-room each evening, which would boil all the tea-water together. But it suddenly flashed into his mind that as we should be pumping by steam as long as the coal lasted, we could boil the tea-water by steam also. And with him to think being to act, the whole thing is un fait accompli. If we can get along with pumping by the Baxter engine alone, we may have a little trouble iu thus boiling the water by steam, because the steam-room is so shallow that salt spray is lifted and carried along with the steam, and would mix with our tea-water. If we are using the steam-cutter's boiler continuously, there will be no difficulty, for as it has a steam-drum on top of the boiler all danger of lifting salt spray is eliminated. How we may have to use it and the Baxter together, or only one of them, will appear a little later.
We took out the port forward bilge-pump to-day, and put it down the fire-room hatch into the fire-room bilge, cutting a hole on the after side of the hatch coaming on the starboard side for the pump delivery. When it is secured in place we shall move the Baxter engine and boiler down to the fire-room, and connect them by gearing somewhat similar to that now in use for the pump brake. Then, the Baxter and steam-cutter's boiler being side by side—the one delivering water on the spar deck, the other delivering water through the side—we shall open the forward flood-gates and let all the water come aft into fire-room. If the Baxter can pump all the water, we shall save the coal now consumed by the steam-cutter's boiler; if the steam-cutter's boiler can do the work we shall save the coal now used by the Baxter. At all events, if one