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I did. Perhaps they ought to as they have 4 props to my two. Thursday, July 26th/60 Well, I am alive, tho hardly in a mode for [[strikethrough]] do [[/strikethrough]] anything except kicking. A right good shaking up did me, & everything else aboard, get last night! Davis Strait certainly is getting Ocean-like! and why shouldn't it? just ^[[insertion]] as [[/insertion]] good navigators ^[[insertion]] have [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]ploughed [[end page]] [[start page]] its waters as any other. Has not Davis been here? And [[Baffin?]] - and Ross - and Parry - and Franklin & Kane? and thousands of others? Davis Strait certainly is improperly named - Let me suggest that Davis Strait & Baffins Bay be called "Davis & Baffins' Sea'. Then can its billows roll high as the heavens deck. as the lowest depths, without our thinking it assuming to be what it is not. About 12 O'clock, midnight, I went upon deck & bid farewell to "Greenland's icy mountains" - & to - [[underlined]]My Suppers[[/underlined]] "Perpetual Motion"! Why has the world been so long in seeking out so simple a problem? Ask me - poor Sea-sick - me, if I believe in Perpetual Motion? Yes! of course I do, & so would any man of [[underlined]]profound [[/underlined]] sense. A ship at sea is [[underlined]] perpetually [[/underlined]] jumping
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Ross is correct
''ss' looks like 'fs' in old hand (e.g. assuming)