[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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convinced that the clock at least [65] did not indicate the near approach of breakfast time yet and left the scene. To quote from my journal for the 15th of August: 11 p.m. The evening has been clear, calm, and beautiful beyond adequate treatment with my powers of description. There are a few clouds in the sky, but the sun is disc is free from them. The color effects differ in different quarters of the heavens, but all are beautiful and they change rapidly as the sun sweeps along the northern horizon. Icebergs, sea, mountainous islands and coastline, fjords, distant glaciers and ice- caps look weird and mysterious in the soft twilight. The noise made by the gentle wavelets striking into the waterlevel grooves of icebergs