36 14. November 1845

so many kindred beings, one's country men, which a similar destiny guides upon the same way! Besides that, in the past night a sailing ship and also a steam ship passed by us in an opposite direction. Also, during the night a flying fish, probably to escape waylaying from a dolphin, fled to the deck of the cabin and remained laying there, so that in the morning everyone could observe it and wonder. It had the size of a small Holland herring with a somewhat flat head and thick back. On each side the creature had ventral fins almost two inches long which enables it to lift itself over the surface of the water and to suspend itself thereon for a moment, The back was of blue-gray, the belly of white color. The same was cleaned and mounted by Dr. Reuss.

Friday, the 14th of November, 1845. Yesterday evening, around 6:30, shortly after sundown, after the full moon emerged out of the sea, we had a splendid event of nature, that because of a clear and very bright sky could be observed especially well and enraptured the observer with amazement and wonder. It was namely the eclipse of the moon, which was calculated in the Frankfurt Calendar of Trowitzsch and Son for East and West Prussia, predicted to begin at 12:32 o'clock in Königsberg in Prussia the night of the 13th and 14th, which here on the island of Santo Domingo in the Atlantic Ocean began not like there around 12:32 o'clock, but earlier, around 6:30, shortly after sundown on the 13th of November, and in its progress unfolded splendidly and punctually according to the prediction of the said calendar, and did not fully end until around 9:30. From this even the lesson is clearly learned, that my native countymen receive the night 6 hours earlier than the local areas and while they are indulging in their refreshing rest in bed, people in the local areas are first preparing to take their evening meal and when those are sitting at their breakfast around 6 o'clock, these are resting in their beds at midnight. During the past