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Sunday 31st – Wind right aft this morning
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the ship rolling a good deal, soon after it shifted
to the starboard quarter, and continued steady the
remainder of the day. Our longitude at noon
was about 103 ½ ° east. Expect to sight the land
in about 10 days.
STANDARDISED
Sunday 31st
Wind right aft this morning the ship rolling a good deal, soon after it shifted to the starboard quarter, and continued steady the remainder of the day. Our longitude at noon was about 103 ½ ° east. Expect to sight the land in about 10 days.
HENRY SCHOFIELD DIARY
31st fine
12th Sunday on board. Got water at 7 o’clock. Dinner spice pudding & boullie, tea spice cake. 9 knots per hour 103 deg Long east. Wrote a letter for AF, got Carthew’s address.
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The clipper route sailed by ships between England and Australia / New Zealand. This image was constructed from a public domain Visible Earth product of the Earth Observatory office of the United States government space agency NASA. It is based on a cylindrical equi-distant projection [Johantheghost, 25 Jan 2006, Wikipedia]
