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At 4 p.m. we passed one of the Nicobar Islands, a small mountainous one in shape like Stromboli & having a fleecy cloud [[strikethrough]] on the [[/strikethrough]] hanging on the summit.

(27)  Weather fine & sea with only a short shop.  The vessel altho still constantly listed from side to side is going without any [[strikethrough]] motion [[/strikethrough]] roll or pitch

(28)  This morning we passed a bare grayish rock resting some 100 feet out of the sea but the Penang coast was not visible.  There were flocks of dark shearwaters & some white bellied boobies skimming about the dull gray waters near the rock.  At noon a few distant hills some 40 miles east [[strikethrough]] refer [[/strikethrough]] loomed up