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papers works too fast for daylight; talk to the engineers.  In the evening walk on the bridge & admire the sunset and beautiful coloring in the skies & print a few pictures; talk & go to bed about 10:45.

Saturday, March 30, 1912.
  S.S. Bramley (Red Sea).
  C., Hot.
   Arise about 6:45; feel very weak & shaky.  Sit about and talk to Capt. Ruthen & look at some birds that had lit on the spars, a sort of flycatcher.  There was a beautiful sunset tonight with a dull red after-glow on the clouds.  Go to bed about 10:00.

Sunday March 31, 1912.
  S.S. Bramley (Red Sea).
  C., Hot.
  Arise about 6:45; I still feel very weak but better than yesterday.  I sat about on the bridge with the captain about all day.  I saw 3 hawks, a tropic bird and 4 or 5 flycatchers on deck to-day. We also passed several steamers, two or three to-night which we could see by moonlight. 
  It was delightful to sit on the bridge in the bright moonlight and be nice and cool after the heat of the day.  Go to bed about 9:45.

Monday, April 1, 1912.
  S.S Bramley.
  C., Hot.
  Arise about 7:00; have a salt bath and after breakfast look at a dove on hoard & through my glasses see tropic birds and boobies and grey & white petrels were very common; note the tropic birds dart into the water from high in the air.  We passed some rocky