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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 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