Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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in the sea whiel had not long been in the water, still Faith north are critically from pencil whiel on getting clear proved to be a pencil cruising, can my hit gun boat (? Buzzard) again the steam Nimrod, and a tramp steam whiel had recently gone ashore. There still was steam in the yard and appeared to be unloading live crops and lumber. before the lunch we noticed probably also came from her. About 7 P.M. the first ice key on sighting front the west of the Ship in St. Lawrence Gulf. This they guess must be Statue of Belle Isle. The sun went down a very red fiery sphere at 7.35- according to the ships time, just a little before the Captain Bartlett announced the Labrador coast in sight. This day was a splendid one and the night appeared to turn out the same. The wind is very slight. The temperature is 43° F. at sea down.