CONTINUANCE OF WESTWARD VOYAGE 109 



while already some seaweeds came floating by, as happens when 

 land is approached. 



On September 1 1 the wind and weather were as on the previ- 

 ous day. In the twenty-four hours we sailed twenty miles and 

 at noon calculated we were still 278 miles from Avacha.^^s Signs 

 of land were seen today as yesterday. 



On September 12 the weather was cloudy and dark throughout 

 the day, and calm besides; the signs of birds and floating objects 

 were the same as before. Instead of the favorable wind expected 

 towards the evening, we encountered a wind directly from the 

 west with rain and progressed only two miles^^e during these 

 twenty-four hours. 



The 13th of September was a bright day. In the morning a 

 NW by W wind arose, held on until two o'clock in the afternoon, 

 and then died down.^^^ Moreover, many whales were seen at 

 play, and we expected nothing good. 



On the 14th it stormed very hard all day and night from the 

 northwest, and we found ourselves compelled at noon to 



remotely corresponds to the gannet in color is Rodger's fulmar {Fuhnanis 

 rodgersi), while there are several dusky species. 



Steller's "Laros Way el Anglis dictos," gulls called Wayel by the Eng- 

 lish, causes no special difficulty. Ray (Synopsis, p. 130) mentions "the 

 great gray gull" to which he refers the ''Wagellus cornubiensium," the 

 Wagel of the Cornishmen. Whether Newton be right that this is meant 

 for the skua (Alfred Newton: A Dictionary of Birds, London, 1893-96, 

 p. 1017) or, as others believe, for a young Lams marinus Linnaeus, there 

 can be little doubt that the birds observed by Steller were the young of 

 the glaucous- winged gull {Lams glaucescens Naumann), which is very 

 common in the region. (S) 



2« The log book (Vol. i, p. 154) gives nearly 21 German miles (83.7 

 knots) for the 24-hour run and 283 M miles for the distance from Avacha. 



2« The log book (Vol. i, p. 155) gives nearly 8 miles (31H knots). 



2<7 This hardly tallies with the log book, which indicates (Vol. i, p. 

 156, entries for 7 and 9 a. m.) a light S to S by E wind in the morning 

 veering to a stronger SSW and WSW wind in the evening (p. 157, entries 

 for 7 and 8 P. M., September 14, astronomical day, i. e. September 13, 

 civil day). 



