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thinking he was mad He had got the
nightmare & very bad too another
testimony among thousands against
the Cursed Drink At last they
got him to bed alright & he dis
turbed them no further that
night Most of his mates on deck
to-day are expressing a wish that
he may not have any more peaks
to night I was asleep when this
affair happened & the foregoing
is taken from the verbal
accounts of eyewitnesses An easy
& contented mind sleeps when
uneasy ones waken as our poor
friend cannot testify There is a
court martial this morning
One of the stewards & the butcher
got quarreling over a bottle
of whiskey & they steward came