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Saturday, March 16, 1912. 
  S.S. Bramley. 
  Clear, C. Mild. 

     Arise 7:45; after breakfast, go on deck for a few minutes and later repack my clothes, etc. in my chest and after lunch wash out some socks, handkerchiefs & pajamas and finish writing a letter to Florence Alexander, & go up on the bridge & talk to the mate & after dinner do the same and then come down in the cabin & write Hazel Nelson & talk to the officers the same as last night. I have seen two or three porpoises & a few gulls & divers. to-day. Yesterday I saw a gaunet. Bed 11:00. 

Sunday, March 17, 1912. 
  S.S. Bramley (Algiers)
  C., Warm. 

       Arise about 7:30; after breakfast go up on deck and walk about. Spend about all the morning writing to Father & Mother. We can see the shore of Algeria to the south too far away to distinguish any-thing, but the outline of the mountains against the sky. After dinner change my clothes & take a couple of pictures; go into Algiers Harbor about 5:00 P.M. After supper go ashore & walk about Algiers with Capt. Ruthen; look in shop windows, etc., come back to the ship about ten o'clock and go to bed about 10:30. 

Monday, March 18, 1912. 
  S.S. Bramley (Algiers). 
  C., Warm. 

      Arise 6:00; go ashore and do some shopping & buy a pair of (Carl Zeiss) binoculars for 7 L. 4 s. I enjoyed going about and seeing the shops and the Arabs & French people. Post some letters and when I returned to the ship, write some post cards and admire the city from on board the ship; it is a beautiful city and the
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