![Thomas Keir diary - 11 January 1864 entry [National Library Micro-MS-0837]](http://mermaid1864.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/30-18640111-ViewScan_0121-k.png "7-18631126-ViewScan_0098-k")
Monday 11th – Dull and calm all day. One
of the cabin passengers caught a beautiful
albatross measuring 10 feet from tip to tip
of the outstretched wings. 9 P.M. a nice
![Thomas Keir diary - 11 January 1864 entry [National Library Micro-MS-0837]](http://mermaid1864.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/31-18640111-ViewScan_0122-k.png "7-18631126-ViewScan_0098-k")
breeze has sprung up from the north and
we are moving on to the S.E.
STANDARDISED
Monday 11th
Dull and calm all day. One of the cabin passengers caught a beautiful albatross measuring 10 feet from tip to tip of the outstretched wings. 9pm a nice breeze has sprung up from the north and we are moving on to the southeast.
HENRY SCHOFIELD DIARY
11th fine
Getting a piece of wood for my box to strengthen it. Caught a large Albatross 10 foot across. Burrell[1] knocked a man’s hat of into sea. 2 knots per hour. For dinner rice & pork, & pea soup for tea, a good loaf by Mrs Earnshaw[2]. Broke my pocket knife sewing my sheet – got some [bac?] of [?ells]
Notes
1. Burrell was possibly James Burrill, a 20 year old farm labourer from Yorkshire and one of the assisted emigrants.
2. Henry Schofield was a friend of the Earnshaw family. They must have paid their own fare as they’re not listed as assisted emigrants, and they’re not included in the cabin passengers. Thomas Earnshaw and his wife Elizabeth Selina Thorpe were travelling with five of their children.[Wikitree]
A is for Albatross: sketches by Edward Wilson [University of Cambridge]
![Sketches of albatross, Edward Wilson c1910 [University of Cambridge]](http://mermaid1864.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/150528-albatrosses-EdwardWilson-UnivCambridge.png)
Sketches of albatross, Edward Wilson c1910 [University of Cambridge]
