Sep. 20th Monday, Off Nova Scotia. I had calculated to arrive in Sydney about noon today but since the Ship made slow progress during the night we will not arrive before late in the afternoon. After dinner I rummaged all my dirty clothes which I have worn for more than one month without a single change. I put on with Mr. White's assistance clean clothes. I have on much finer clothes than I have been wearing for two months and I hope will not catch a cold. My fingers seem to be making slow progress. I believe I shall soon have them better. I hope to do better. I am now so so we shore land. I never wished and looked forward to a time more than this. The past two months seem to me more like a geological night— more the an actual trip to Greenland. Left the vessel 5-10 and took the ferry for Sydney where we arrive at