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1340--One Fairy Tern off starboard side headed northeast.
1350--One Bulwer's Petrel off bow.
1358--One Bulwer's Petrel off port side.
1415--No Albatross. Four Sooty Terns
1430--One Bulwer's Petrel. No Albatross. Sooty Terns off port bow--saw four.
1436--Three Sooty Terns, far off port side.
1445--No Albatross following ship.
Two
1448--One Red-tailed Tropicbird flying overhead. Also one Bulwer's Petrel.
1457--Petrel off port side, headed east.
1458--Two Bulwer's Petrels, 200 yards off port.
1500--Zero Albatross. One Bulwer's Petrel.
1503--One Bulwer's Petrel off port bow.
1511--One Bulwer's Petrel off port side.
1513--One Bulwer's Petrel off port side, flying east.
1515--Two Sooty Terns, way off stern, flying north. Nor Albatross.
1518--Four Sooty Terns flying north off starboard side.
1519--One Bulwer's Petrel off starboard side., flying east.
1520--One Bulwer's Petrel off starboard side, flying east. Also, one Wedge-
tailed Shearwater crossed our ship, starboard to port side.
1522--One Bulwer's Petrel off port side, flying east, very close. Two Sooty Terns
flying east off starboard side. Also two Wedge-tailed Shearwaters off
starboard bow. These crossed the bow headed southward.
1524--Another Sooty Tern off starboard headed east.
1525--Seven Sooty Terns off port side flying east. One Fairy Tern off starboard
side along with one Bulwer's Petrel.