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those objects of our tenderest affections, which in our fanciful immaginations, are enjoying themselves in their inocent and sportive amusements such as they were wont to do in our presence. I say in the absence of those visionary scenes, that parting farewell reverberates back to the mind with redoubled force and vigor of meaning, which casts a gloom over our feelings in spite of all our efforts to restrain them. 
Lat 24°50' South Long 83°49' West

Sunday June 10th 1849. Cloudy and pleasant Wind light and irregular, the course of the Ship to day was parallel with the long heavy swell so common in the Pacific, which made the ship roll very much, there being not sufficient Wind to keep the vessel from surging to and fro, with a tremenduous sweep.
Lat 23°46' South. Long 84°10'North

Monday June 11th 1849. Fair. Wind South East and moderate. Lat 22°10' Long 85°09 West
"Pass we the long, unvarying course. the track
"Oft trod, that never leaves a trace behind
"Pass we the Calm, the Gale, the change, the Tack,
"And each well known caprice of wave and wind
"Pass we the joys, and sorrows, Sailors find,
"Coop'd in their winged Sea-grit citadel,
"The foul, the fair, the contrary, the Kind,
"As breezes rise and fall, and billows swell
"Till on some jocund morn, ho land - and all is well"
     [[underlined]] Byron [[/underlined]]

Tuesday June 12th 1849. Clear. wind variable and light. allmost a calm. Saw a new spieces of waterfowl to day not before seen. They were of a white colour. the Cape Pigeons still remain with us - Lat 20°50' South Long 88°09' West -