[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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I feel that Bradford, Stokes (33 and other artists were justified in the color schemes that they have used in depicting Arctic Sunsets. When we reached the “Cluett” the sun was well down behind the mountains, but the waning moon was hanging mid- way over a deep valley cutting the cliffs near the village. I thought that it was the new moon, until I realized that the crescent shape faced the wrong way and was on the wrong side of the sun for that phase of the orb. The weather continuing to be perfectly calm, so that it was useless to try to sail, I took the day launch the following and, with the inspector, the governor and