Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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nearly as possible. I w[oul]d rather that any thing else had gone over there my plaid but I must be contented that I am 5 still above the water myself. Today is the twenty sixth anniver- sary of Captain Crowe's birth.98 {H}e was married when he was twenty four [and] so please God 10 will I. Now Augusta go along good ship so that I may get beginning life as soon as possible and get wedded to Eliza. 15 Thursday 19th Another fine day, rather too fine, a dead calm. {W}e are like the farmers, never contented. Weather will be either too stormy or too calmy 20 but we ought not to repine.99 God sends it all for our good, both the bad weather [and] the good weather. One of the men refused to work [End of Page 60]
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