Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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just ahead of us. She is bound to the west also. She was about eight miles ahead of us but ere nightfall we lessened the distance 5 till four [miles] and expect to pass her ere this morning. I hope it's the “Governor Hinckley” wh[ic]h sailed five days before us.52 The water presented tonight the most beautiful 10 appearance ever I saw. An immense number of porpoises were swimming on both sides of the ship. The water is in a highly phosporescent state [and] the effect was truly grand. When 15 we were at tea about [half] past 6 two vessels passed one on each side of us. They were each a couple of miles from the ship. I think Love, it would be a nice marker 20 for a Bible to have a dove nicely sewed in the center, and a border of olive leaves. I do not know whether it would be practical. [End of Page 26]
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