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[[preprinted]] SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. looks squally, but expect a fair wind. Write about half and hour before muster and in the afternoon. Write to Mr. Collyer, and close letters to Baird, Torrey, Walker and Prof. Henry. Have a fair inspection. Dr. F. and Field had a spree last night on Pierces rum, and consequently our immaculate M.D. is unable to appear from indisposition and old L.M. can hardly stand straight enough to pass muster. Glover is getting well which is a pretty good note on the Doctor. Write Russian in the evening, in the after cabin. Rolling a good deal. 

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 13 [[/preprinted]]
Morning Blowing hard from east by north which is precisely our course. Through out the day blows harder. By eleven A.M. the wind has increased to a perfect gale which shifts suddenly to the North east. Breaks about 2 o'clock A.M. in the following night. Start a letter to Stimpson but have to leave off on account of the gale. Nicolai puts his head through four panes of glass in the wardroom hatch. Turn in in afternoon and early in the morning wind dies away. 

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 14 [[/preprinted]]
Morning fine and cold. Noon rainy and squally. Write most of the day. Heavy sea remains from yesterdays gale. Finish Stimpsons letter and write to Miss Anne Newman. Old Doctor on another spree. He can punish as much rum as any man I ever saw. In the evening talk with the Capt. about Ounga Island and scratch away at some estimates. Go to Conlin for some information which he is unable to give, which does not speak well for the intelligence of the Companys Chief Carpenter.

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[[preprinted]]WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15[[/preprinted]]

Morning, rolling badly. Work on lumber estimates for Ounga, including Storehouse, Coal shed, Tramway 1500 ft. long, double; wharf or getty 50 feet long, roofing and siding for 200 ft. of gallery; total about 40 M. Work on these all day, with Black on the Report. A number of calls for clothing, supplies etc. from the men. Capt. Scammon not quite well. Doctor Fisher makes me a present of some arsenical paste and a box. Write all the evening, on the Russian grammar. Finish the nouns. The rules are very clear and distinct. 

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY 16 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, light winds but split both royals in the breeze last night. Have them down to mend. Write all the morning and most of the afternoon on the estimates of provisions and hardware for Ounga. They mount up regularly, very high but it is an unheard thing for a mine to repay all outlays etc. on it in the three or four first months of working. Talk with the Captain in the evening and write up my accounts in the slop chest book and also post up my diary. 

[[preprinted]] FRIDAY 17 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Scudding before a gale which promises to be the heaviest yet, under lower main topsail, forsail, lower foretopsail, and fore top mast staysail. Decks and upper cabin flooded with water. At 12 oclock, we have made by dead reckoning 212 miles since 12 o'clock yesterday. Sea continues to become higher and at night the gale is at its height. We have been making an average of eleven knots an hour today. Turn in early for a long and sleepless night. The seas breaking over my head on the poop.
 

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