1894
March 4
(No 3)
Barbados.
singularly like that bird in [delete]generally[/delete] general
appearance and behavior hopping about on the
ground in the busiest streets and with the same
bounding or bouncing motion, It is a more silent
bird, however, and it appears to be less social for 
we seldom saw more than two together. Several of 
our passengers mistook these birds for House Sparrows.
  We left Barbados at 4 P.M. and had a 
wonderfully smooth and pleasant run to Trinidad.
The sea was almost as calm as a small lake.
Chapman saw an Audbon's Shearwater before sunset and
at about 11 P.M. I heard many times at short
intervals what were probably the cries of this species.
They seemed to come from the surface of the 
water close under the rail of the ship and were
so loud and peculiar as to attract the attention
of everyone who happened to be on deck at the
time. One of the passengers thought that resembled 
the screams of a small child and suggested that 
one of the negro women on board had thrown her
baby over the rail but to my ear they were more
like snarling growl[s] of an angry cat.
  It was very warm this evening even on deck
for the trade wind was unusually light and
we were running nearly before it.