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and will take improper liberties with his wife if he dont look out. He then pays Stepanoff enough money to buy 4 lbs of tea and goes off. Stepanoff told me of this himself while we were walking. I think this is about the height of meanness, when one man only is left in the country, to do all he could to prejudice the most powerful man in the country against me by downright lies, after I had as good as made him a present of the value of $ 750.00 Such is life.
The ship got a strong wind in the night and is many miles away now, in all probability.
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Get Kurilla, Antoshka + Jekunka together and go over the wet cartridges I bought. I find that about half of them had only been dampened and the powder is