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The time of departure from Wild on the 24th is very close to the margin and 
quite muddled.  I can't be sure exactly what it says.  This might take 
another set of eyes on the reproduction (or perhaps the color reproduction, 
which I did not purchase). Canterbury Museum prohibits further reproduction 
and I chose to respect that. For now, I will leave this alone in the log.

The left hand column, where I had transcribed 2.37.19, should read 3.37.19   
Worsley's twos and threes look very much alike and in particular, this is 
very lightly written.  Since I expect that Worsley knows how to subtract two 
numbers, I have corrected this item.  My error.

I don't have other parts of Worsley's log and so am unable to determine how he 
knows his chronometer is late by 10m52s.  When we get through this, I will 
approach Canterbury Museum around the occultation dates given so we can see 
how he treats this data.  For now, we must accept his rating.  He is, after 
all, the navigator and we are just along for the ride.

I have the very latest charts for the Antarctic Peninsula, to include Elephant 
Island.  That will have to wait until I can scan it in and post.  I need a 
few days for this, so bear with me.

At the bottom of 24 April, there is jumble of characters which is crammed into 
a very small space.  It appears to be keeping track of course and speed for 
his DR.  It is most assuredly a mess and incredibly hard to transcribe..  I 
have changed the 22 into illegible characters. 

The dots appear quite plainly in his logarithmic values.  They look to be 
placeholder marks so he doesn't add up the wrong numbers.  That is, when he 
writes 298.85 (corresponding to 59Deg50Min), the dot is there.  It appears 
midway up, not exactly at the base, but the intention is plain.

I have updated the log to get us as far as 28 April.  Enjoy!

Best Regards
Brad 

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