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It seemed rather hard to drop anchor in quarantine and see the mail taken off & be obliged to spend another night on board. I never saw people so eagre to get to a place as all the passengers were to reach this country which was home & heaven, as it seemed, to many of them.
We were up and on deck in the wee hours of