Folio 5: 6 July 1824. Patten?s pulse 128, falling to 92 when resting. A solitary...

Folio 5: 6 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 128, falling to 92 when resting. A solitary mallemuck flying about. Folio 5: 7 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 120 when standing, 96 recumbent.

Folio 6: 8 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 120 standing, 108 recumbent, Chamberlayne’s spermatic cord assuming a more natural feel. Several cape hens sighted.

Folio 6: 9 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 136. The previous night at about 10pm a luminous [arc] appeared in the west for about 5 minutes.

Folio 6: 10 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 130. Two kittiwakes, some cape hens and porpoises seen.

Folio 6: 11 July 1824. James Stroud, aged 23, Seaman; disease or hurt, attacked with shivering and giddiness, succeeded by pain across the forehead and great stupor. Discharged to duty, 18 July 1824 [folio 7]. The Surgeon is unable to account for Stroud’s fever except by inattention to himself in not changing out of wet clothes, the thermometer having fallen 14 degree in 2 days and the change from a meagre diet to a full one.

Folios 6 – 7: 12 July 1824. Stroud’s right leg in a state of erysipelatous inflammation from the ankle to the knee.

Folio 7: 13 July 1824. James Hay, aged 25, Seaman; disease or hurt, eruptions on his face and body and an elevated hard spot on the site of an old ulcer on his penis. Discharged to duty, 18 August 1824. Treatment of Patten and Stroud, Chamberlayne returned to duty.

Folio 7: 14 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 140 while standing, 120 after lying down. Stroud convalescent. Several mallemucks seen.

Folio 7: 15 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 130 standing, 120 recumbent, falling to 110 after resting a few minutes. Hay complaining of pains in the shoulders. Several mallemucks and two tern seen.

Folio 7: 16 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 104 standing, 88 recumbent, Hay’s 88. Several mallemucks and tern seen.

Folio 7: 17 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 134 standing. Treatment of Hay.

Folio 7: 18 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 120, Stroud returned to duty. Several shearwaters seen.

Folio 7: 19 July 1824. Treatment of Patten and Hay.

Folio 7: 20 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 120. Folio 7: 21 July 1824. Patten’s pulse 130.

Folio 8: 25 July 1824. Although Patten’s pulse has varied between 120 and 130 since the last report he is discharged from the sick list at his own request. James Hay improving. The weather has been fine but with a prevalence of fogs and the temperature falling as America nears.

Folio 8: 17 July 1824. James Hay’s gums nearly well. A decayed piece of drift fine passed the day before.

Folio 8: 18 July 1824. James Hay’s mouth slightly affected, skin nearly clear. Weather has been [stormy] and thick, thermometer falling.

Folio 8: 1 August 1824. Samuel Martin, aged 28, Boatswain’s Mate; disease or hurt, deep seated pain in the shoulder joint, from a fall some days earlier. Discharged to duty, 15 October 1824 [folio 23]. The first ice bergs sighted, thermometer dropped from 44 to 34 degrees in a day, in the afternoon sighted Cape Chudleigh [Cape Chidley].

Folio 8: 2 August 1824. James Hay’s mouth very sore, Samuel Martin feeling some relief from the blister. James Chamberlayne has received an accidental blow to his left testicle, which is very painful but not much swelled. Since he appears to wish to go home, is a bad patient and his testicles seem very prone to inflammation from the slightest cause, it is agreed with Dr Lindsay of the Snap that he should be sent home. Several ice bergs seen at a distance. The ship is about thirty miles off Labrador.

Folio 9: 3 August 1824. James Chamberlayne’s testicle much reduced from the previous evening. Sailing through pack ice all day, thermometer at 32.

Folio 9: 4 August 1824. Samuel Martin has derived no benefit from the blister. James Chamberlayne discharged into the Snap for a passage home. The Snap despatched for Newfoundland for fear of damage from pack ice.

Folio 9: 5 August 1824. James Hay’s mouth mercurially affected. The ship working along the coast of Resolution Island, fog banks observed accompanying pack or streams of ice.

Folio 9: 6 August 1824. Running up Hudson’s Straits with a favourable breeze. Folio 9: 7 August 1824. Samuel Martin’s shoulder not better. Refraction of light observed to make the moon appear to oscillate the evening before and to produce an inverted image of the horizon above the actual horizon during the morning. The ship sailing among pure white drift ice. A great number of loons shot, also a mallemuck and a few seals.

Folio 10: 8 August 1824. At 6am the Surgeon was awakened by the sound of the ship apparently running aground, she heeled to port and grated into deep water. The general belief was that she had struck a sunken [rock]. Forced a way through heavy pack ice in the afternoon.

Folio 10: 9 August 1824. Sailing through ice all day and in the evening made fast to a large floe off the Upper Savage Islands, several seals observed. Folio 10: 10 August 1824. Samuel Martin gets no benefit from cupping and fainted on going on deck. The ship anchored to a larger floe to slow drift to leeward. Some oak leaves found on the ice floe.

Folio 10: 11 August 1824. Treatment of James Hay. Samuel Martin feels a little better. Ship cast off from the ice floe and worked into clearer water. The aurora borealis observed and described in some detail, ‘This phenomenon was evidently very near us, but no noise could be distinguished, as has been reported to have been heard by many who have beheld its brilliant coruscations’.

Folio 11: 12 August 1824. Made fast to another ice floe, the wind again being contrary. The ship was visited by about 18 Inuit people who wished to trade clothing, skins and spears for European goods, particularly old knives, needles and beads. There is a detailed description of their appearance and the Surgeon and Mr [Manied] examine a forty year old woman to see if she has pubic hair; since the men do, the Surgeon concludes that her lack of pubic hair may not be natural. Cast off from the floe and worked in shore followed by the canoes.