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Tea and coffee or what passes for such, to be sure
one would be tempted to say if this is coffee
give me tea if tea give me coffee if he had not
tried them both and found there was but little choice

But now a few words about other matters
Sunday Jan 28^th we had a stormy N.W. wind carried
us before it at a fine rate, had the pleasure of being
sea sick all day. But I had what misery loves, i e company
and a aplenty of it.

29 Tuesday Monday 29 went NW course East or about that, today I was
better. Emmerson is very sick.

30. Tuesday 30^th I turned out early, wind fresh from NW the sea presented a very
rough appearance there being no regular swell, but choped [chopped]
and broken. Captain Allan coming on deck said
that we were just entering the Gulf Stream
found the temperature of the water to be 69° and a
verry perceptable change could be felt in the atmosphere
at noon temperature of the water 75°, the wind increasing
rendered it nessecasary [necessary] to take in sail before this could be accomplished in dooing which
the fore top sail was torn to rags. The main topsail broke
away from the yard. The Mizzen topsail was split
and the crotchet guard was sprung, everything was at length
made snug and away we scudded, before the wind.

Sometimes a huge wave would come combing
down uppon us with its crest of foam and spray seeming to
to threaten us with destruction, but as it nears us our
noble ship she is carried upward by the buoyancy of the
waters, and swaying far over to leward untill her
yards are dipt in the bryne [brine]; the wave passes under
her keel and goes foaming on its way to waste its
force on some far distant shore; While our ship regaining
her equilibrim [equilibrium] with a quick motion bounds onward
as with a new impulse.

Towards evening the water twas found to be cooler
by several degrees than it was at noon which led us to
suppose that we had crossed the Gulf Stream which
was, the captain stated, about 80 miles wide in this
Longitude & Latitude

31. Wednesday morning we found the weather cooler still
having a good wind from the West, our course being
south east.

This morning soon after day light one of
the sailors came up out of the forecastle and made
for the gangway, and would have jumped overboard