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Sept. 6. Crossed the equator at 4 P.M. yesterday.
Clara kodaked it.

Sept. 8. Today is Sunday and tomorrow Tuesday. It
is said that Monday has dropped out because the sailors
don't like to lose their Sunday holiday—as if they couldn't
have it just as well on an ostensible Sunday as on a
real one.

At night. 50 miles from Sidney, very dark. Schools of
porpoises come streaking it to the ship from out the black
distances like luminous sea serpents. A porpoise 8 ft. long
would look like a glorified serpent 30 to 50 ft. long, every
curve of the tapering long body perfect and the whole
snake dazzlingly illuminated by the phosphorescent splen-
dors in the waters. The color was that of the glow worm
and wonderfully intense. The night was so dark that the
actual surface of the sea was not distinguishable, and so it
was a weird sight to see this spiral ghost come suddenly
flashing along out of the solid gloom and stream past like
a meteor.

In Australia

Oct. 3. Sent £437.13.6 to T, A. Dibbs, Commercial
Banking Co. of Sydney. I asked him to send it to Mr.
Rogers.

He had set out to pay off the debts resulting
from the failure of the Charles L. Webster Pub.
Co. and had been steadily remitting to Mr.
Rogers for this purpose. This was probably his
first remittance from Australia.

Oct. 4. Melbourne. Dr. Fitzgerald froze and then
lanced this damned carbuncle; then gave me an opium
hypodermic It is the loftiest of all human vocations—
medicine and surgery. Relief from physical pain, physical

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