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when it was received with great applause we have a chaplain appointed by the company who called us together on deck this morning when he made a few remarks sung a hymn made a prayer and read a chapter in the Bible to us the day is raw and chilly I am as yet well and in good spirits though there are some 3 or 4 sick as there is not much prospect of our pilot leaving tomorrow I will postpone for the present Henry unclear Tuesday afternoon 4 o clock? unclear unclear mother I take my pen in hand to write a few lines to you. You see we are still in Bad Luck and in the same place that we were last Saturday which you I unclear are thinking me some 100 of miles from New York. Yesterday was a Blue day mother and no mistake Sunday night it commenced to Blow a regular north east accompanied with snow and rain and yesterday there was scarcely a well man on board. I had my time with the rest I was horribly sea sick and though hardly able to stand I kept on deck