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 20 FIRST DAY OF THE SHOOTING SEASON—AT SEA.

Sept. 1st.—While fishing with a piece of pork as bait, a Cape pigeon caught the hook in his bill and was pulled up. Porpoises, and an albatross about the ship. Weather cold, like the month of March. Thermometer 52°. Drew the quilt over me for the first time for many weeks.

llth.—A heavenly day, like one of our autumn days; but rather too calm for our impatience—the Cape being within less than a