1894
April 20.
At Sea
Noon Observations
  When I came on deck at 7 O'clock this morning
the sea was perfectly calm with a long slow, swell
running from E[ast] to W[est] The sky was cloudless, the
sunshine warm, the breeze chilly. It was a typical
northern sky and sea without a t[??]n of the t[???]
and rich coloring of the tropics which I fear I
shall miss sadly now. There was also no Sargassum
weed – not the smallest fragments.

  Tow or three Herring Gulls and a haream of
Wilson's Petrels – at least a dozen – were following
the wake of the steamer and most of them
are still with us (it is now noon).

  Early in the afternoon we entered the
Gulf Stream. Fortunately a fresh S[outh] W[est] breeze
has risen and, blowing with the stream, made
the water comparatively calm so that up to
ten o'clock there was but little motion. Later
on the shop laboured a good deal and most
of the passengers passed a bad night in[?] in consequence.