Jan 1. Saturday. [1 January 1898] Still rough but I weighed in for breakfast and sat on deck afterwards talking to the Captain, Cop [i.e. Copp] is his name, and a man we call the Taper [Mr Hoffmann] who travels in stuffs I think. He told me queer stories of the digging up of Inca tombs and the finding them clothed in stuffs very like nun's veiling! After lunch M [Maurice] and I talked to Sir W. Smith who is going out to be a judge in Demarara and has been for 15 years a judge in Cyprus which he is very sorry to leave. He knows Mr Hogarth and Mr Browne and all about Babis and is quite pleasant and interesting. I played piquet with M before dinner and was ill but dined all the same. Mr Northcote also reappeared.