Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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it was rather better. I was very sick [and] vomited a great deal. At seven I felt very unwell [and] as I could not lye on the sofa 5 owing to the rolling of the vessel. I tumbled into bed with my clothes on. I lay for an hour [and] then put them off. Cunning- ham came to bed then, and 10 Crowe went to bed at nine. We were all very tired as none of us had slept the night previous. Well at ten o'clock a heavy sea struck 15 the ship ahead of the main rigging washing in the whole of the fore part of the Cabin [and] stateroom bulkheads,75 carrying away the wheel-chains76 < and blocks, 20 and slightly starting the stern post,78 stove the long boat and carried away the poop rail < and ladder as well as doing sundry slight damages.79 [End of Page 45]
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