Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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        Friday 27th Again we have a
        beautiful morning, but then it is
        calm and the Augusta not being
        a stea 116 having any other propelling
5      power than her sails of course
        we cannot expect to move.
        Every day we see little land
        birds flying about. When they
        come on deck we catch them
10    but they do not live with us.
        They have all been blown off
        the land with storms. We
        are getting soft bread every day now
        to breakfast [and] tea. {T}he steward
15    bakes flour soda scones.117 I do
        not think that for the last 3
        weeks half a dozen biscuits118
        have been eaten in the cabin.
        {W}e killed two pigs since we left
20    the half of each of wh[ic]h the
        < steerage > passengers got{.} I took a little
        fresh pork one day [and] was the
        worse of it, so I took no
   
   
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