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our mattresses or bedding. The approaching
cold will remedy this. Our floor is damp
from the conducted warmth of the sea water
below melting its ice, it will [re]freeze back
into dryness.

Among my plans of improvement, which [if Mr.
Bonsall and myself holding] working in health
[I hope] I only want one man beside myself in working health
to complete before the close of another
week are - 1. The introduction of
window sash and glass over the roof
and southern side of our galley house
2. The manufacture of large specula
of Daguerreotype plates tacked togeher
over a wooden screen by which we
can convey the the rays of the low sun
to our cliff shaded brig and thence
down into the cabin. 3. Beside [The introduction]
of a mass of sunshine into our present
den of misery. The complete recleansing
and chlorination (Labrague's Cl-
of Sodium) of our bunks lookout and
stow holes. 4. The adaptation of a full
draught pipe to our "smokey stove. 5. The thorough
airing of our beds. — [will I firmly believe,
aided by Quinine, Iron, and
Providence make a rally.]

I don't speak here slightingly of
Providence. Call it by what name you
please we are all, [I-, am] sensible of
a care which comes in at moments of
crisis to show that we are watched
I'll never sneer again at the idea of
a supervision - . Whatever be the agency
- I feel its existence with gratitude and
trust. Be it a natural law, the waking
of an organic system of probabilities, or a
great superintending supremacy, it is
nothing to me. The superstition of acknowledging
such a an intervention will not