Sunbeam #Atlantic #Ocean 14.8.1876. "Tonight the stars were especially brilliant, and we spent some hours in trying to make out their names. Vega, our polar star for some time to come, shone conspicuously bright and the Southern Cross could be seen to great advantage."

Pages and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Mid-Atlantic Ocean 14.8.1876.
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Pages and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Mid-Atlantic Ocean 14.8.1876.

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