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At Sea. 
1894 
Aioril 18 Noon observation: Lat. 28" 03; long. ? ; run 205 miles. 
Weather practically the same as yesterday but v/ith a 
stronger head wind and a rougher sea. Mat ha.s become of 
the trade wind? Our captain shakes his head when I ask the 
question and says that this northerly weather is simply 
unprecedented in his experience. The wind has not been 
fairly in the East or, indeed, much to the East of North 
since we left St. Kitts. 
The sea has been very blue all day with an abundance 
of Saragossa weed, sometimes occurring in rafts of several 
yards square. 
Flying Fish have been very scarce. Indeed I have 
seen not more than four or five but these have all been 
huge fellows — as large as large Mackerel. The larger the 
fish the longer its flight, as a rule. One of those seen 
to-day flew at least 300 yards, rising over the tops of 
the waves and descending into the hollo?fs, following the 
undulations of the water very closely, much in the manner 
of a Shear?irater for which, indeed, I at first mistook it. 
The only bird seen to-day was a solitary Wilson’s 
Petrel which, just before sunset, crossed our bows heading 
westward. It is curious that none of these little Petrels 
have followed our ?irake but I have looked for them at 
different times in vain 
