SS Taranaki
Richard Haydon's diary continued:
23 August
she is sailing about 3 1/2 miles up to 1/2 past 3 o'clock when the wind began to sprang up and sent her on about 7 miles an hour we had a shower of rain with it we are about 860 miles from the line [Equator] we saw several vessels about 6 o'clock this morning it gets dark about ? of 6 o'clock evenings.
25 August
A strong side wind. sea washed over the deck bit calmed down a little towards the evening sailing about 9 miles an hour.
28 August
Its very hot today this ship is got a little out of her course the wind still the same sailing about 7 miles an hour we saw a large numbers of birds they were called the stormy petrels.
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