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I LEFT Bombay for England in January 1881, on board the P. and O. s.s. Sumatra (Captain Briscoe), and on February 1, the vessel being then in N. lat. 14° and E. long. 53° (not far from the position described by your correspondent) had an opportunity of witnessing the phenomenon known as the “Milky Sea”, rarely seen except in these waters. The following extract from my book, “An Engineer's Holiday”, describing and explaining the appearance, may interest Mr. Barrett:—
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PIDGEON, D. A White, or Milky Sea. Nature 58, 520–521 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058520e0
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