1894
April 14
(No 2)
St. Vincent to Guadeloupe
  During the whole time that we spent in crossing
the channel between Dominica and Guadeloupe the
wind, for the first time since I reached the West Indies
was west but it was very light and the sea very calm.
  We saw in this channel a small school of Black Fish,
a very large school of Porpoises, and a Tropic Bird.
The last, like the two that I saw on my way
down the islands, rose apparently from the surface
of the sea and mounting to a height of about
200 ft flew straight away out of sight. I was
again struck by the resemblance of their flight to
that of a domestic Pigeon but the wings are
moved even faster than the Pigeon's. The tail was
closed, the neck shortened.