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and be always meeting people and lunching and dining, and receiving worrying cables and letters. voyage on the Atlantic is of no use–voyage too short, sea too rough. The peaceful Indian and Pacific Oceans and the long stretches of time are the healing thing.

STUPIDITY IN EUROPE.

May 2, A.M. A fair, great ship in sight, almost the first we have seen in these weeks of lonely voyaging. We are now in the Mozambique Channel, between Madagascar and South Africa, sailing straight west for Delagoa Bay.