North Atlantic.
Voyage from Liverpool to Boston. Gulf Stream waters.
1911.
Aug 7
(No 4)
[August 7, 1911]

Jaeger

heading as if to cross the bows of our ship. But on coming
up with them it turned sharply to the right and went off
westward, into the glowing sunset sky, almost exactly in the pathway
that we were following. Its flight reminded me of that of a
Golden Plover seeming equally swift & tireless. If I remember
rightly the Jaegers that I saw in the mid-Atlantic in Aug. 1909 [August 1909]
flew at much the same elevation as this bird but more
irregularly and less decisively. As far as I have observed there
are no other sea-birds far out to sea in this latitude
which fly so high above the water. I think this bird was a Long tailed.

Big school of red-bellied Porpoises

  About 5.30 P.M. I heard shouts & exclamations on the upper deck
and rushing out found the ship in the middle of the largest school
of Porpoises I remember to have ever met with. They were scattered
rather irregularly in small parties over an estimated square mile of
ocean. Some of the passengers estimated the total number at between
100 and 200. I did not see more than 50 but I was all the while
looking out to the southward only. Several that I saw almost under
our rail & within thirty yards showed one distinct blackish stripe along
the side with sometimes a fainter frontal one. Their under parts were
strongly reddish. The [They] make very active & graceful leapers. Evidently
their best speed was about equal to ours (15 knots) but they did not
long maintain it.