27th .-- Wind has shifted to N.W.

The doctor was summoned during the night to visit one of the men taken ill two nights before.
The poor fellow died before daybreak, and I hear that another is not expected to live until night.

The doctor has only been on deck for a few minutes to-day, and these he occupied in talk with the captain, who seems to have caught the prevailing depression, for he has been going about in a state of nervous disquietude all the afternoon.
I expect that want of sleep is telling upon him at last.

The clasp is still missing.
"Sept.

28th .-- A rough day, and all hands busily engaged.