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we were in for some bad weather. The wind soon came in Ught 

 from the SE and we pushed into it under power first on one tack 

 and then on the other. By eleven o'clock we were in rain and mist 

 and the hills of Newfoundland were blotted out. After lunch the 

 wind began to pick up but we still kept the motor going as we were 

 bucking a swell as well as the wind. Just before supper we got some 

 good hard rain and as it began to get rough, I had the motor 

 stopped. As we were driving along through the worst of it with the 

 water rushing in and out of the scuppers, 1 heard a strange cry and 

 looking back saw a large seal stretching his neck high out of water 

 and making a great racket. We evidently woke him up as he slept. 

 About eight o'clock, the weather being nasty, we hove her to 

 under fore -sail and try-sail. It kept blowing harder and harder 

 until by eleven it was putting green water on the decks forward. 

 One particularly big sea even washed the port anchor out of place. 

 The "peak" spent a particularly unpleasant night. They seemed to 

 be in a submarine as they expressed it. From time to time a good 

 deal of water would get down the galley hatch as the man on 

 watch went up to have a look around. John reported that he had to 

 chase a lantern around the deck as it kept floating away. The blow 

 was plenty hard enough to have made the "White" very uncom- 

 fortable. By five o'clock in the morning the wind had gone but a 

 wretched sea remained. 



Position Cleared Cape ^ace 

 Monday, July 12th <| Weather Fog 



Wind Light westerly 



WE got sail on before breakfast with quite a struggle, as every- 

 thing was wet and heavy. The wind was light and from 

 the SW, the fog thick, and the swells very steep. We hardly seemed 

 to move ahead at all, just up and down. By noon we were making 



