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Aug 18 rigged Schooner on the Starboard Bow so cut in behind her & left her to Port. She passed very close & dipped the salute in passing. Counted 27 sails in all & could distinguish several figures on deck
(12 Noon) averaging 300 a day & just 3,170 off Capetown.
Every night the piano is in full request & the voices of "the boys" float out over the Atlantic, and it is the good old songs they love the best of all.

19 Nosing our way through heavy seas & a head wind, but there's no dip; only a bit of a roll. Crossing the line about

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