North Atlantic
Voyage from Liverpool to Boston - Gulf Stream waters
1911.
Aug.7
[August 7, 1911]

  Noon obser [obersvations] lat. [latitude] 42.03; lon. [longitude] 51.10. Clear and very warm with moderate
east wind and smooth, blue sea.

Arctic Puffin 600 miles from land.

  I went out into the bows at 8 A. M. and remained there
about fifteen minutes, seeing a Wilson's Petrel and an Arctic Puffin.
The latter looked like a young bird having greyish cheeks and dark-colored bill. It came flying past our bows
within thirty yards of me in bright sunlight, a little below the level of our bow deck, and then alighted on the water about
seventy yards off when Allen saw it. His identification was the
same as mine. We must have been 600 miles from the nearest land
when this bird was seen & about midway between Newfoundland
and the Azores, the nearest points.
  At 3p.m. Allen & I went to the bows and remained there
a full hour keeping a keen watch over the ocean to the northward
(that to the southward being so ablaze with dazzling light that
it tried our eyes too much to look in that direction). During
this time we saw 12 or 15 Mother Carey's Chickens or less than
one to the mile, the speed of our ship being about 16 knots per hour.