Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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today I'll perhaps sleep in my berth. This has been an excellent day, weather very warm, and not a breath of wind < I fear tho[ugh] 'tis but a pet day [and] that we will have a storm at the back of it, May God grant otherwise. > All the beds [and] 5 bedding that are on board are out drying or airing, besides every corner of the ship hang round with wearing apparel getting dried. I have suffered 10 by the sea striking us more than any other one excepting the Mate who got his arm broken. Still Eliza, if God spares me to get to New York [and] health after- 15 wards to work I'll soon make up my loss again. It will cost about ten pounds to set me to rights and that Eliza at the present time to me is a trifle. 20 It is not only the mere cash but the good that I might do with ten pounds till I w[oul]d require it to assist in furnishing [End of Page 49]
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