Chapter 2 - Z: Monday 27th, February - Logged 36 miles

We have now reached the point ⊗ on the square of the U.S. NAVY S. Atlantic pilot chart which serves as our wind and current guide.

 An excellent document (No.2600 Dec. Jan. Feb., price 30 cents).  The arrows around the centre ring show percentages of prevailing winds; the feathers the average force to be expected and the small figures in the circles, the number of days in every hundred when calms may be expected.  The red figure is the average number of gales to be expected in every 100 days.  Today we got a real Westerly wind for the first time, after a rain squall, which may mean that we are at last "on the run" for the cape.