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Clear the Ship and myself from any liability of short delivery of Cargo
                           I would further give notice that there are many goods, [[strikethrough]]on board[[/strikethrough]] for which there are no bills of Laden or receipt these goods will be held untill the whole cargo is discharged and should there be a deficiency in other goods - the former will be applied towards making up that deficiency
T Procter
Ship Capitol July 9/49

Tuesday July 10th
A strong wind from the north as usual steering E. by N. Saw a vessel off our lee quarter on the same tack as ourselves. It is rather discouraging to us to be beating about here against head winds and within one weeks sail of San Francisco. The bark Salotte passed about two miles to windward of us in the afternoon on the opposite tack after which we soon tacked steering N.W. A very heavy [[underlined]] headbeat[[/underlined]] sea on all night.   Lat 33°45' Long 134°00'

Wednesday 11th
In the morning strong winds from the same quarter Ship heading the same. It continued breezing up so that fears were apprehended of our getting another of those severe gales but before night it somewhat abated so that we made more sail. Sea continued rough quite cold for these lattitudes
Lat 35°45' Long 136°14'

Thursday 12th
Light winds and cloudy weather in the morning the Ship steering the same old course N.W. In the afternoon the breeze freshened and hauled to the westward so that we could steer our course about two hours. How the Passengers rejoiced at the first approach of a fair wind and we really flattered ourselves that we should be in port in a few days, but our hopes