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A Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard from Washington are among 
our passengers. Hubbard is accompanying Riley, as assistant, 
to attack the scale bugs which are laying waste the lime 
and lemon groves of Montserrat. He used to know Maynard 
and he has taken a course of study at the Museum jo£] 
Comparative Zoology. 
11 P. M, The afternoon has been delightful but 
wholly uneventful. Ho birds, no flying fish, no whales or 
porpoises, no Portuguese men-o'-war, even. Simply the great 
circle of calm, deep blue sea and the pale blue dome over¬ 
head. The swells have gradually subsided until now the 
steamer moves swiftly on her way v/ithout the slightest per¬ 
ceptible roll or pitching. The full moon hangs suspended 
nearly overhead but although its beams silver the crests 
of the ?/aves thrown off by the steamer’s bows, the effect 
is simply that of moonlight on our northern sea and very 
unlike that noted last evening. 
Through the afternoon cumulus clouds have hung 
about the horizon and this evening lightning has flashed 
through some of them. Several which have passed directly 
over us have seemed to me to be very low down and of a 
peculiar fleecy quality, looking more like clouds of steam 
than anything else. The Captain says that they are trade 
wind clouds and this reminds me to note that we reached the 
trade wind belt this morning when the wind, which has blown 
