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Saturday 3-2^-23 Bright Sun,thin fog in eve. 
Pasadena to Santa Barbara Channel en route to Laysan Id. 
Sailed from Wilmington at high noon on the "City of Los Angeles" 
("Aeolus", during the war - before that the Hamburg -American "Grosser 
Kurfurst"). She has been rented (?) from the U-S-S.B. by the L.A. S.S. 
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o., this being the first run under entirely private auspices. Apparently 
an unusually steady second-rate Atlantic liner about 580* over all and of 
about 23,000 gross tons. Captain Paulsen commanding. 
We have a fine roomy outside cabin on starboard side of D deck, 
amid ships #327 with deck chairs forward on the port side of ”£/’ deck. 
The Shipping Board decked over the aft = well on ’V deck making an ideal 
passengers.’ M shuff le-board par lor n , but an expensive hoist for freight. 
A stodgy passenger list of only 85 (instead of the 375 she can handle)but luckily 
no Jews I 
In late' afternoon hours after we had left Santa Barbara Id. astern 
on the port side with San Nicholas as a mere speck beyond it I was inter¬ 
ested in noting a group of several pelicans resting out in the open sea 
20 m. or so from any land> *. I had thought of them as fishing inside the 
islands instead of out in this choppy wind-track -- probably from the 
Anacapa colony. 100 or so Western Gulls still following and at dinner 
time were apparently doing well with schools of small fish. 
Enough slop to break through our port hole while we were at dinner 
and soak my bed. We are probably so-w , of San Miguel and there is a 
fair short chop running. Only a dozen or fifteen in for dinner despite 
the fact that the ship rides as steadily as the Rock of Gib. Hard to get 
used xo the 
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she carries to help overcome some engine defect 
roll simply a slow rise and fall. 
Cold out on aec. 
k tonight. Thank heaven I went back for my overcoat 
