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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] afterward 3 more aboard ship also 200 lbs leaf tobacco and about thirty lbs of cannon powder which I am afraid will be but little use. Write to Mumford care of Wright. Give letters for Hubbard with seven norkas & a sable bag for him to Everett Smith. Give Whymper my pictures and my letter authorizing R.E.C. [[Hearns?]] to draw my pay in San Francisco. Give Ketchum letter of introduction to my mother and give one to Prof. Henry. [line] Wednesday 21 [line] [[left margin]] My 22nd Birthday [[/margin]] Blowing & raining like the old boy all day. Go aboard ship getting drenched by the sea on the way; get out my powder & tobacco & lead. Go back and get drenched again and it rains & rains worse than I ever saw it here before. The whole place is full of mud and drunken men. It is quite enough to make one a teetotaller at once