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of sails and expect to go around the horn a flying and next July will most likely see me in California I shall then expect a letter from you about 12 Pages long. and tell me every thing that has happened since I left I believe that I can not write much more but will give you a more detailled account when we are at sea once more and send it when I arrive at Valparaiso I will answer the boys letters and the other girls one of these days. Tell Mary Christine not to get in a pond so deep as to drown and if she would take my advice to keep out of the water altogether and tell Betsey Hawley that I would advise her to keep clean of the Managerie for she would scare the Lion? to death as sure as she would if he saw her. But my dears I supose it will be as much as a mans life is worth to walk through Main St when I get back for every step you take you will be running into a Pond or coming in contact with a young unclear. But I think I will go the back road and keep clear. Tell Capt. Bassett I have followed his advice and can pull a rope go to the mast head or stear a trick as good as the best of them tell the girls all to write tell Mag? B. I opened her letter crossing the Line