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barometer with each rise and fall of the schooner. Oily estimated 

 35 to 40 feet for the height of the waves on his altimeter which is a 

 pretty accurate instrument. Luckily during the four dark hours the 

 bergs "seemed to sink" as we saw not a one during the night and 

 the fellows were sufficiently scared to keep an excellent lookout, 

 without being urged. 



No wonder people do not go yachting much on this coast. I 

 certainly hope that if we get caught in another one of these, we can 

 run before it. 



Position Nectring Port Mdnvers 

 Friday, August 6th <( Weather Clearing 



Wind Light and variable 



THIS morning we found ourselves in a regular amphitheaue of 

 huge bergs. The sea was still rough but the wind had become 

 light though still holding from the north. The sun cheered us all up 

 and in spite of the fact that the boat rolled so that you could hardly 

 stand up, we got sail on her with a will. The "victims," few as they 

 were, snarled things up enough to make this a long job. Three 

 fellows got wet on the bowsprit and several times all work had to 

 stop while fingers were warmed and mits wrung out. 



At eleven Woody came on deck and broke his three day fast by 

 sitting in the forward companion-way and eating applesauce and 

 bread. Meanwhile the engineering department was hard at work on 

 the engine. On Wednesday while trying to work off Negro Island 

 the engine had been started. As it was raining John had put a piece 

 of sacking over the engine to keep off^ the water which came in 

 through the hatch. (Nobody was man enough to stay longer than 

 five minutes in the hold with the hatch closed.) The sacking had 

 caught around the shaft which drives the magneto and had stripped 

 the teeth of the gears which drive it. Luckily there is a dual ignition 



