6 A.M. Call executive officer. 7 A.M. Call ship’s cook. 8:30 A.M. Call all hands. 9 A.M. Breakfast by watches. 10 A.M. Turn to, clear fire-hole of ice, fill barrels with snow, clean up decks. 11 A.M. Clear forecastle. All hands take exercise on the ice. 11:30 A.M. Inspection by executive officer. 12 M. Get soundings. 1 P.M. One watch may go below. 2 P.M. Fill barrels with snow. Clear fire-hole of ice. 3 P.M. Dinner by watches. 4 P.M. Galley fires out. Carpenter and boatswain report departments to executive officer. 7:30 P.M. Supper by watches. 10 P.M. Pipe down. Noise and smoking to cease in forecastle, and all lights to be put out, except one burner of bulkhead lantern. Man on watch report to the executive. During the night the anchor watch will examine the fires and lights every half hour, and see that there is no danger from fire. All buckets will be kept on the starboard side of the quarter-deck, ready for use in case of fire. This programme was varied only as contingencies arose; by threatening disaster from ice pressure; by the chase of bears; the capture of walrus and seals; or by hunting parties who travelled over the ice in search of game, or took a daily run with the dogs. [Sidenote: _CAPTAIN GEORGE W. DE LONG_] “Wintering in the pack,” comments De Long, “may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire in a comfortable home, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old.” On January 19, 1880, owing to serious convulsions of the ice, the _Jeannette_ sprung a leak. The deck pumps were at once rigged and manned, and steam raised on the port boiler to run the steam pumps. This last caused great difficulty and delay, owing to the temperature in the fire-room being -29°, the sea-cocks being frozen, which necessitated pouring buckets of water through the man-hole plates, before the pumps could be operated. Through Melville’s indomitable energy, the pumps were effective by afternoon. Though all hands worked until midnight, the serious situation was only partially controlled, the men working knee-deep in ice water, Nindemann standing down in the fore-peak, stuffing oakum and tallow in every place from which water came. Under the direction of Lieutenant Chipp, a bulkhead was built forward of the foremast, which partially confined the water. In the meantime, Melville, working night and day, rigged an economical pump with the Baxter boiler, with which the ship was pumped for nearly eighteen months.