Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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any one coming in the fall it w[oul]d be decidedly better to wait till the following spring. The only reason that I w[oul]d wish you to wait would be that by doing so you 5 might find some one who would come with you. I urge this because I know what it is to be sick, and I can easily imagine you in such a state [and] without any person with you, from 10 whom you could get assistance. I have been lying on the sofa both yesterday [and] today. Now if the Cabin was full I could not get doing so. Some ships provide bedding, 15 others do not. The Augusta belongs to this latter class. I brought with me a bed for wh[ic]h I paid in Watt's Jamaican £1 1/6 [and] a pillow for wh[ic]h I p[ai]d 9 (shillings?).67 In case 20 the ship you come out in does not give bedding, you'll better buy it from Watt. It was a straw mattress [and] they are the best. I brought up with [End of Page 40]
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