Viewing page 12 of 25

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

understand why a man of his talent should be content to be banging cattle. He has made as many as ten trips. You know that coming back these men have nothing to do except to wash their one shirt and sleep off their Liverpool drunk. Refined class of men these. At noon today, went in the crows nest (that is the watches position up in the forward mast.) There I took two pictures of the boat. Mrs. Royce today came on deck. She had not been seen since the first rough weather. She reminds me of Mrs. Moran. They are going to Paris. 

Wednesday. The ocean today is as smooth as Hull Bay. I never felt better. During the rough weather I must confess that at times I felt rather uncertain around my walking beams, but at no time was I really sick. Altoghether the trip was a very smooth passage for October. Slept about two hours on deck today. The old English farmer told me all about his business and daughters.