Letters From The Cape By Lady Duff Gordon

 -   Also, I saw a whale spout like a very tiny garden fountain.
The Southern Cross is a delusion, and the - Page 12
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Also, I Saw A Whale Spout Like A Very Tiny Garden Fountain. The Southern Cross Is A Delusion, And The Tropical Moon No Better Than A Parisian One, At Present.

We are now in lat.

31 degrees about, and have been driven halfway to Rio by this sweet southern breeze. I have never yet sat on deck without a cloth jacket or shawl, and the evenings are chilly. I no longer believe in tropical heat at sea. Even during the calm it was not so hot as I have often felt it in England - and that, under a vertical sun. The ship that nearly ran us and herself down, must have kept no look- out, and refused to answer our hail. She is supposed to be from Glasgow by her looks. We may speak a ship and send letters on board; so excuse scrawl and confusion, it is so difficult to write at all.

30th August. - About 25 degrees S. lat. and very much to the west. We have had all sorts of weather - some beautiful, some very rough, but always contrary winds - and got within 200 miles of the coast of South America. We now have a milder breeze from the SOFT N.E., after a BITTER S.W., with Cape pigeons and mollymawks (a small albatross), not to compare with our gulls. We had private theatricals last night - ill acted, but beautifully got up as far as the sailors were concerned. I did not act, as I did not feel well enough, but I put a bit for Neptune into the Prologue and made the boatswain's mate speak it, to make up for the absence of any shaving at the Line, which the captain prohibited altogether; I thought it hard the men should not get their 'tips'.

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