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be mended by the substitution of a
title. I recognize and will gratefully
regard it as The Providence of
God.

[*[?]*]
Tom, dear fellow, may laugh as he
pleases at the above indication of a
worm eaten brain. I'm as far from the theologies
of Moses, Peter, and Luther
Calvin, Cranmer, and Knox, and
Wesley; and George Fox and
Napolean
and
Channing, and Samuel Leiper
Theodore Parker
Odenheimer
Jacob Janeway
Joe Smith
and the Reverend Doctor Boardman;
as he is, but I feel with overwhelming
humility and consciousness of
ignorance the conviction of a
super intending power.

All my future operations
shall be based upon this conviction.
Please God! I will yet give a good
manly try to search Kennedy Channel,
then duty done, the brig still
prison bound enter trustingly upon
the task of escape. To carry this
party home [is] my one absorbing
thought will be accepted as a Vow.

McGeary worse. [The Therm
down again to -30°. The day good
and clear for William] but then Hans
killed two rabbits. He also saw a
reindeer. Stopped our butter allowance
and reduced our molasses
of butter we have 20 lbs of molasses