We celebrated a birthday a few days since, (Jan. 8th,) by having the
South East Trades set in, blowing us on our direct course to San
Francisco. Rose at six and sat on deck, the ship going at the rate of
eleven knots, the foam flying before us in sheets. These S. E. Trade
winds blow from 25° S. to the Equator, both in the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. The N. E. Trades blow from Lat. 30° N. to lat. 5° N.[3]