“I now belong to a higher cult of mortals, for I have seen the albatross!”
Murphy's diary exclamation on first watching a wandering albatross glide over the Southern Ocean near South Georgia during the 1912 voyage of the whaling brig Daisy.
— Robert Cushman Murphy, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
Source: Robert Cushman Murphy, Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Macmillan, 1947), diary entry of 1912
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