All-black dolphins with long snouts leaping high in the air. Black-and-white gannets, and brown Booby Gannets. Masked gulls very abundant (Dark face back + wings, except for white-tipped secondaries, white collar, under-surface + tail). Off Jebel Tir about 8 am., + Jebel Zukur later the Hanish Ids. Very hazy, probably from fine sand all the afternoon. A few flying-fish, gulls + some Killer-whales ( Orca). Good following breeze lasted nearly all day. bank of canal before reaching Suez where we arrived at about 7.0 pm. Reached Ismailia about 1.30 pm, + the Bitter Lakes at 3.50 pm. Several large falcons + kestrels numerous Kites some gulls + terns. Some fairly large sandpipers, a few swallows + many martins. Black-+-white Kingfishers numerous a few Rollers + Hoopoes. Grey shrikes very abundant on the telegraph wires. side immediately after leaving Port Said. Did not coal + ship started again at 8 a.m. Ship doing slow time, the run being only 370. Did not see Crete, but the lights were visible from about 10 p.m. A few small flying fish, + one or two land birds seen, otherwise no life. (smoking steadily, but no big flow of lava). Very little life seen, barring petrels, gulls + dolphins. Fine day, light, cool breeze which held on throughout. I dined there in an ‘Algerian’ restaurant, food very bad. On board + I went to the Exhibition by myself, but it was not at all interesting at night as nearly everything of interest was closed. We took the 4.45 pm train back, arriving at Marseilles at 6.5. Arband, which has an interesting library + many objects of local interest etc. Blandford (a Cambridge man) by 10.45 am train to Aix en Provence, where we visited the Cathedral + other churches + the Musée P. Returned on board for dinner.įri., 18 th Went with the ship’s surgeon, W.F. Stewart, to the Colonial Exhibition, parts of which were interesting + well arranged. Quarry (of the Indian Police) and his niece, Miss M.A. my cabin, where the oscillation has ‘nodes’, as it were.) Apart from this vibration the “Malwa” is very nice + my cabin was excellent, being a corner one with 2 windows. Hot at night + the ship vibrating badly (a characteristic of the “Malwa” which I had noted on the voyage to Australia in her in 1914, but which seems to have become more marked, making her very uncomfortable to travel in, especially in certain parts, e.g. We had a good talk about Macclesfield days + the Grammar School, etc. He insisted on my being transferred to his table for meals. LeMare, was the boy I knew 50 years ago nearly, at Macclesfield. Discovered that the Captain of the “Malwa”, W.R. Sea at night brilliantly phosphorescent to a very unusual degree. Little life seen except petrels, a single skua + dolphins. Off the Birlings 10.30 am Schools of dolphins. 14 th Fine, sunny, nice breeze, sea slight. Many Rorquals + dolphins seen, Stormy petrels + larger petrels. 12 th Sea moderate, raining, misty + cold. Balfour Diary Naga Hills 1922-23įriday, Aug. Diaries of Henry BALFOUR (1863-1939), anthropologist and museum curatorģ Volume I: H.