Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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Monday 25th - Shortly after getting up this morning I vomited a good deal of Bile. I felt greatly better after it [and] shaved for the first time since 5 we left Greenock. Sharpley is better [and] shaved also today for the first time. It is a beautiful day [and] the ship is not rolling much. There is a fine steady breeze, and not 10 much of a sea. I lay very little on the sofa today [and] was out walking most of the time. I feel almost quite well now. [A]bout ten o'clock we saw an immense 15 shoal of porpoises. Some hundred if not thousands of them. They continued the ship till one o'clock when they left us. Sometimes they w[oul]d 20 spring right out of the water, but they always are just skimming the surface. They swim very fast. We also saw large flocks of [End of Page 21]
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