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1861 July Fourth Thurs

After dinner - a capital Fourth of July Dinner, by the by - Capt. B brimming with the true spirit of keeping up the remembrance of "76" proceeded to give us a gun - one that [[strikethrough]] would make [[/strikethrough]]'things crack' - & 'thunder'!  
An old, cast away gun laying around on deck the Capt. picked up & filled it to the "brim" with powder - then hammered down & plugged up the muzzle.  The stock had been ripped off in the morning by the Innuits - thus leaving only the barrel.  Capt. B made repeated trials during the morn to get this "Ghost of Sebastapol" (of last "Fourth") to speak forth (or [[underlined]] "FOURTH" [[/underlined]]) but without effect.  Now he was determined - Everybody knows what a [[underlined]] determined man can do. [[/underlined]]  The priming was well [[underlined]] needled [[/underlined]] in till it rust the "bowels" within.  Fearing destruction or what amounts to the same thing - some [[underlined]] Sebastapol wound [[/underlined]] to the "George Henry", Capt. B. took the precaution of carrying this gun far out on the ice.  Then he placed it on a purely white bed - ice-bed - pouring around "Sebastopol" jr a little mountain of powder, & leading from it a long train.  Then came the "Touching off".  No one dared risk it but the one who had concocted the Magazine. Capt. B applied the