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her flags in reply to the spaniard. Not
being a son of father Neptune the mean
ing of which I coud not understand.
This afternoon I went down the galley
and assisted the cooks. Nothing like
making friends with those kind of
people. We had a little calf on board
and they killed him this afternoon "bush
fashion". His head was soon off and his
body strung up. We have a cow
on board whose milk is for the [the] first
saloon passengers. We get a great deal
of it. You may guess. About as much as
you can see with your eyes shut. The
position of the stars are tonight are as under.

[here-in:
a sketch of the night sky with labelled stars and planets,
including North or Polar Star, Great Bear constellation, Venus, Uranus Belt, Saturn, Mars, Plydes or the Cluster of Butchers Cleaver]

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Helens

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