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II(3 Southam tonto EdmontonDiary. May 15,1926.Left Southampton in SS Empress of Scotland 1:30 p.m. About 7 p.m. heard theengines stop and going up on deck found ourselves inside Cherbourg harbourin the embrace of two long stone piers. Gray evening, gray town, white-graycliffs. Cold wind. SS Aquitania near harbour mouth silhouetted on orange sky,gigantic, four-funnelled, raised high out of the water as if she would assert herindependence, funnels sloping backward made her look like some monsterabout to spring; wonderful picture, that ship against orange sky.The tender was bringing on emigrants, shawled women, children in stripedgarments, men carrying bundles or little wooden chests, Czecho-Slovaks andother East European peoples. They berth for' ard separately under the nameof" continental emigrants."deck.May 16th. Church in first-class saloon. Hot sunshine. Basked on upperMay 17th. Cold and calm. Saw a whale, his tail came right out of waterbefore he sounded.May 18th. Cold. Wretched.May 19th. Cold and less rough. How the hours drag.May 20th. Engines stopped dead last night 2-6 a.m. At intervals a belltolled in the mysterious silence. Weird stillness after throb of engines for days.On deck after breakfast. Gray-brown sea and gray fog and strange briny smellwith a tang, as if it came from some unseen sea creature. Engines stoppedagain, we drifted or wallowed in that gray silent sea. Presently a very small