Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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required and its rare sport to see him reeling from side to side [and] levelling his body to keep on the perpendicular. Then comes 5 our sport to keep the soup plates on the horizontal{.} {W}e take the plate in the one hand [and] the spoon in the other. The table is covered with a frame which 10 has a number of partitions about a foot square for our plates [and] larger squares for the tureen [and] the plates containing the beef [and] potatoes. Were we 15 to leave our soup plates on the table in two minutes they w[oul]d be emptied of the contents by the rocking of the ship. I took a glass of toddy last night 20 but was nothing relieved by it so I'll take no more. We get a chance of plates for our beef [and] potatoes, [and] another for our [End of Page 14]
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