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Aug 4/30 Caught largest trout yet seen 3 1/2 lbs - Aug 6 still larger (5 lbs) with 20 others of ordinary size [[encircled]] 460 [[/encircled]] Aug 14 Fishermen now supplying us with enough for our daily consumption [[encircled]] 461 [[/encircled]] Shooting & fishing kept the men occupied & in health [[encircled]] 464 [[/encircled]] I had reason to believe that the perfect health of the men was not a little owing to the incessant exercise wh. kept both body & mind fully occupied [[encircled]] 489 [[/encircled]] (Ross) Pub. Lib. But little difference bet. mid Winter or mid Summer for travelling. X It is the Esqx alone who here know the true secret of happiness & the rational art of living. [[encircled]] 489 [[/encircled]] [[end page]] [[start page]] It was arranged that 2 watches of the men should walk on shore in the forenoon for exercise & too in the afternoon I need not say that this has been held one of the precautions of scurvy. [[encircled]] 490 [[/encircled]] do Dec 2/30 Sun 1st seen Jan 19th 1831 [[ditto for Sun]] 1st [[ditto for seen Jan]] 18 1830 By Ross Sherriff Hash [[encircled]] 501 [[/encircled]] Mar 10/31 We froze oil of almonds in a shot-mould at minus 40° & fired it against a target: wh it split rebounding unbroken. [[encircled]] 507 [[/encircled]] Mar 31/^18 31 Perfect health. There had been none on the sick list & there was no appearance of scurvy. [[encircled]] 509 [[/encircled]]