9. September

About twenty enslaved men, many of them from Kongo, broke into a store at the Stono River bridge, took guns and marched south towards Spanish Florida, which promised freedom. Their numbers grew to perhaps 60 to 100 before militia caught them the same day. Some 20 to 25 colonists and 35 to 50…

Over Lemhi Pass on Shoshone horses. Clark scouted the Salmon River and found it impassable, so a Shoshone guide the captains called Old Toby led them north over the mountains into the Bitterroot valley.

At Colombo, in Ceylon, the Sun was seen to be green. Next morning it rose bright blue at Madras, and green and blue suns were reported across southern India and Ceylon.

Dog-tired, Seward is sent by Lucy to a sofa in the next room, with both doors left open and her promise to call. He sleeps through everything.

Lucy, “so miserably weak” for weeks, feels well that night: “Arthur feels very, very close to me.” She thanks Dr. Seward for watching over her blissful sleep and is not afraid to sleep that night.

On a “sultry afternoon in Funchal Roads” all hands were called on deck, Nilsen unrolled a chart of the southern hemisphere, and Amundsen explained. Asked one by one whether they would go on, every man said yes. His brother Leon went ashore with the letters that would break the news in Norway.

127 days of open sea without touching land, east through the Southern Ocean, round the world’s bottom to the Ross Sea. Nilsen had reckoned they would reach the Barrier on 15 January 1911; they moored on the 14th. A sail stretched over the deck kept the dogs in shade through the tropics.

“Boy in da Corner” won Britain’s album prize a year after Ms. Dynamite’s. Dizzee Rascal, from Bow, was 18: the youngest winner the prize had had, and grime had its first national headline.

Talks to sell a stake to the state-owned Korea Development Bank had ended. The next morning Lehman announced a 3.9 billion dollar quarterly loss and a plan to spin off its property holdings. Nobody believed it.