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time he began to be neglectful, & was off too much
evenings &c for my fancy & I was wise enough to see that
if we kept on at that rate that we should soon be re-
duced to nothing. Still I could not make F believe it & for
a long time he would not agree to sell out which hindered
me from doing so but I was determined to get out of it
at some rate or other & at last I told him so & he finally
agreed to sell out which we did do without losing any
thing providing that I get all my pay of him as I have
got about $200. deposited in the Bank & which I am bond [bound]
to hold on to so that I can get to the States at any time.

All of the above, please say not a word about to any
one not even to Friend Tucker as I shall endeavor to come
out right yet in time, & I have about made up my mind
that "Contentment is the best fortune" You wrote that a
copy of the Journal I kept during the voyage from New York
to this place would be very interesting to you & I would gladly
send it to you but I have not as yet got it copied and as
the original one is written with a pencil & hardly intel=
ligible you must excuse my sending it at present but
I will promise to copy it as soon as I have time & save it
for you. I think you must have felt somewhat anxious
for my safety when you heard by way of Sam Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] that
I had not arrived here the last of June & that the Stag Hound
had then been due 20 days, but if you had known the fact
that vessels are often due 40, 50 or even 60 days before they
arrive you would not have felt alarmed as such is often
the case owing to calms, adverse winds &c [etc.]. While on our way
out here we thought our living was not fit for brutes