Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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bread [and] cheese or pudding. We get plum pudding34 on Thursdays [and] Sundays[.] We also get a little porridge and molasses about seven o'c[lock] each 5 morning. I got a little one morn[in]g so Sharpley [and] Cunningham had a little with me next morning. We then breakfast at eight, dine at two [and] have tea at six. 10 At all the meals we have beef, but I only take it to dinner. The ship creaks dreadfully each lurch she takes {-} one would think that every bone in her body w[oul]d be broken 15 to pieces. She did not creak going our last time or coming home. It's the bellyful of pig iron that she has got wh[ic]h causes her to creak so. A woman has been ill for 20 the last two days. Today the Captain says it is small pox that is with her. I trust the infection will not spread.35 The Captain [End of Page 15]
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