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fan going all night I felt no serious discomfort.
Feb 8 (Sunday) Up early nice moderate breeze. Warm but not uncomfortable we are nearing more and more the [[underlined in red]] equator. [[/underlined in red]] I can hardly conceive that we have only been away from New York [[underlined in red]] since a week [[/underlined in red]] and that the last wireless brought us the news of a heavy snowstorm there. The [[underlined in red]] water has no longer that vivid blue [[/underlined in red]] of Florida or the Carribean. Granite formation? Passengers by this time all seem well acquainted. I [[underlined in red]] find several men know me. [[/underlined in red]] They are either engineers or connected with engineering enterprises.
Feb 9. This morning at about 
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[[margin, red pencil, written vertically]] Equator [[/margin, red pencil, written vertically]] 
[[underlined in red]] 8 A M crossed the Equator [[/underlined in red]] Temperature is pleasantly warm About the same [[underlined in red]] as our cooler summer temperatures. [[/underlined in red]] All passengers, I included who cross the line for the first time had to be initiated, ladies as well [[strikethrough]] Several [[/strikethrough]] A mild form of hazing consisting for the [[underlined in red]] ladies of eating [[/underlined in red]] a [[underlined in red]] custard pie [[/underlined in red]] from a plate on deck, with their hands folded on their back, or emptying some [[underlined in red]] ginger ale from a soup plate without spoon [[/underlined in red]] or use of hands by [[underlined in red]] biting into apples suspended [[/underlined in red]] from a [[underlined in red]] horizontal rope. [[/underlined in red]] All this before the [[underlined in red]] Court of Neptune. [[/underlined in red]] The latter being made up by one of the passengers in oil skins and rubber boots and untwirled manilla rope [[underlined]] as hair [[/underlined]] under is So' Western. and provided with a [[underlined in red]] gilded trident. [[/underlined in red]] Also the [[underlined in red]] baslier played by Mr. Wraith