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Nov 3 1811

My Respected friend

you would no doubt think me ungrateful should I not give
you a few lines but [indecipherable] stay is so short,
I can only give you a short note to [indecipherable]
you and for I [indecpherable] I have not forgotten 
you. We arrived home on friday Night
after a very trying  voyage of almost
16 weeks We are on an allowance of a quart
of water each for More than a week
our Bread and Meat all expended
but we are all 

well and it  in a house of B Nott s community of one 

have plenty of visitors there is a great scarcity of food on the table.