Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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Trinidad May 1891 and the islands and the mainland of South America, the mountains of which towering up to the skies, fill away inwards, the spit of land running into the Gulf of Paria, and a wide expanse of Sea, La Boca Grande, departing the Venezuelan territory at this point from the island of Chacra care which is English soil -- we passed through the Boca Hermosa, and the big ship moved daily against the strong current which has dashed so many sailing vessels against the high cliffs close to us on her left side. The Captain himself him took the wheel, and he looked on in the st silence that is akin to awe on the magnificent scene -- soon the comparatively still atmosphere we left behind, and the strong inspirating Atlantic breeze swept past us, and there was an end to the heat and the deliverance hot and and depressing Trinidad atmosphere. Later on when we got fairly away from land the ladies dropped off one by one and two by two, and Miss Breamton went to her cabin, for the ship began to roll and pitch, and the ladies said they were tired, but it was a peculiar fatigue that dimmed the lustre of the eye, depressed the spirits, and made the countenance to turn of a penurious white colour!