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[[preprinted]] SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Black quite sick. Get a new salp quite soft bodied and spend some time in making a sketch of him under the microscope. The muscular and circulatory systems are beautifully evident. Make a drawing of the large Salpa obtained yesterday. Read the Wandering Jew for the first time and find little satisfaction in its prurient delirium of plot and mad unreality. 

[[preprinted]] SUNDAY 22 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, get a fine though small Carinaria in the net and also a new Pteropod which I find no genus for in the books. It is like Cleodora but without shell and very large. Wright objects to my wearing a sword. Talk it over with the Captain and conclude to let it go till I see the Colonel at Plover Bay. Feel unwell, take some medicine. Our grub is extremely vile worse by far than last year. P.M. sketch the soft salp in colors

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 23 [[/preprinted]]
Morning cloudy, quiet Course N by E. Nothing in the net in particular Black better. Feel sick and miserable from medicine P.M. Make a colored drawing of my new Pteropod in the morning get bottles out of Starboard Brig with Schuylers help. P.M. Finish Sans Merci by author of Guy Livingston whose style is very pedantical to say the least and the novel not over good.
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[[preprinted]] TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Wind high vessel rolling so heavily that the only chance for any comfort is in keeping low in the bunk and reading Get Armadale by Collins & return Sans Merci, the author of which evidently is an imitator of Kingsley but with a pedanical flavor which is entirely foreign to that healthy [[underlined]] English [[/underlined]] writer. The old ship makes a great deal of water. They pump her out every two hours.

[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY 25 [[/preprinted]]
Second edition of yesterday. Sit with Black who is worse again. Read Uncle Silas a very fair sensation novel by Lefann. It has a very well managed murder and a hypocritical old opium eater with an unheard of disease. Ryder wants a pair a shoulder straps I must try and find my old ones tomorrow.

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY 26 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Sea declining somewhat. Tacking all day Wind gone down a good deal. Make drawing of Carinaria. Finish Uncle Silas " and return it. Finish My Novel by Bulwer. Bulwer seems to affect the style of Sterne and Thackeray very much as Wilkie Collins does Dickens but with even less of originality. P.M. Wind rising again. Nail up straps for clothes to prevent their wearing out by chafing with the motion of ship

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Ambrosia: Reviewed with minor edits