Smith only replied. " Thanks for your message and good wishes. Had fine weather since leaving." The soft warmth from the Gulf Stream. through which they had passed during the day. gave way at night to chill and cold. -the air and water registered their lowest point an hour before the collision. The warnings of shipmasters fell upon deaf ears and officers and crew seemed to have regarded the paper bulletins of danger with absolute indifference and. as if to stir their laggard spirits. nature gave a warning of approaching peril so significant that passengers in stateroom and steerage shut out the chill and spoke to one another of the sudden cold. Sailors off the Grand Banks know the importance of the thermometer. which is almost as necessary to their safety as is the compass. Even the quartermaster.
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