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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