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not know how to describe the feeling
- were it not for the almost fatherly
kindness of our good old captain
and the congeniality of feeling
between my royal friend the
Centurion Conelius [shorthand] I think I should
really begin think I was from home.
– But in the one, I have but
little short of Parental good
will and attention – and in the
other scarcly less than fraternal.
— This and many things like it
contained in this letterified journal
are unnecessary to be mention'd
only that you may be acquainted
with as many of the particulars
of my situation as will convince
you that I am "comfortable" –
you know "what a comfortable
thing it is to be comfortable" = "and
we all like to be comfortable"
so thought I you would be so
upon hearing that I am – —

Holyhead was in sight
this morning – but it may be sometime
ere we get there yet – our wind
is still but Zephyr-like and
that ahead here, but fair
if we were a little furth- North.