Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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been visited by you.24 I went to bed at ten. The ship just about the same place as where the steamer left her. 5 Tuesday - 19th Got up at six o'c[lock] and found the ship off Ailsa Craig,25 going along nicely, under a stiff breeze. Captain says our voyage only commences now be- 10 cause the Clyde extends to Ailsa Craig. We are sailing along the north of Ireland at the rate of eleven knots an hour, the tide being in our favor. I got 15 very sick today [and] vomited a good deal. I was the first that was sick. Mr. Sharpley got sick today also.26 I threw up a great deal of bile, in 20 fact I vomited nothing else. The captain saw a very large whale, about four o'clock [End of Page 6]
| NOTES:24.25. Ailsa Craig is a small island at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, leading into the North Channel. 26. | |||
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