172.
On Board the Steamship "Kensington"
1897.
July 9.
 Latitude, 49 50 N.
 Longitude, 10 40 W.
 Run - - - - - 325 miles.
  A fine day, warm, nearly cloudless, with tender blue sky
and deep blue sea roughened by short, low waves but so nearly
without swells that the "Kensington" kept an even keel for
minutes at a time.
  Several vessels seen; at one time, just after lunch, we
had a tramp steamer and a dingy old bark on our port side and
to the southward, about twelve miles away, four British war
ships going through some intricate manoeuvring.
  The only bird seen during the forenoon was a Herring Gull
(a gray bird) that came about the ship soon after breakfast.
Early in the afternoon five or six Petrels (apparently Wil-
son's) followed our steamer for a short time and a Gannet (in
spotted plumage with dark wings) and a fine, old Herring Gull
came close about us.
  We made Bishop light on the Scilly Islands at about 10
P.M.