at mine when I returned one were still just it. At 8 P.M. the evening local paper the "Ships Explorer" was issued. Let's find in at White return at 10:45. Others are playing poker. July 21-97 Wednesday. At sea. Rose at seven, coloring and foggy with a quiet sea. Some of the passengers are undressed naked having the house put on them for a bath. At noon the Captain tells me we have made since we left the Boston left ship 426 miles. From 8 A.M. yesterday to noon we made 37 miles or once we left the left-ship 217 miles. At one P.M. we are supposed to be off the coast of Nova Scotia 30 miles but the weather is so foggy that no hearing can be taken. He may also be off our course considerably. At 4:10 P.M. I heard a noise on the left side of the vessel and on running over I saw young Fitzgerald pale as death having lost his hat at the reefs, climbing out of a whole boat one mid rope which had fallen from its davitt and had fallen into the sea. The other davitt held fast otherwise there probably would have