1894 
February 18 Dead reckoning at noon: lat. 36.59; long. 71.08; 
run 224 miles. 
Second day at sea — Pass the lat. of Hatteras and 
cross the Gulf Stream. 
Cloudy with strong south-west wind and heavy showers 
of rain at intervals. There was an ugly sea running when 
I came on deck at 8 A. M. and it increased slowly but 
steadily until the waves were nearly as large as any that 
I have ever seen. Our ship behaved splendidly but more than 
half the passengers were forced to take to their rooms. The 
decks were positively dangerous at times. 
Through the afternoon the sea had a peculiarly wild 
and angry look. The wind picked the crests off the waves 
and the white spray drifted like snow. The water became 
distinctly bluer as we entered the Gulf Stream at about 
noon. The wake of the ship was almost exactly the color 
of water in which blueing has been placed for washing pur¬ 
poses and the crests of the breaking waves had a similar hue. 
We passed out of the Gulf Stream at about 10 P. M., after 
which the sea became much less rough. 
Gulls About a dozen Gulls were following the ship when I 
came out this morning but they all left us before ten 
o’clock and during the afternoon I saw no birds of any kind. 
I think these Gulls were Kittiwakes but I did not put the 
glass on them. 
