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etc. that the woman has "seen better days". In the parlor are two really elegant but rather old fashioned bureaus with moveable glasses, two handsome card tables with rich covers, and Marseilles outer covers, a nice work table, a very nice mahogany side board, a sofa, two stuffed rocking chairs & 1/2 doz. stuffed common chairs & two large handsome pictures framed. The woman is about 50 years old I should judge - her husband has been dead seven years. She seems very kind & good. We were both very tired last night - went to bed at dark and slept about twelve hours! Samuel says he feels weak today but on the whole better than yesterday - my back feels the unusual exertion of yesterday some of course, but I really feel as if the salt water will do me good. I bathed in it this morning. It made my skin looks as red as a beet all over. The air is cool, but really refreshing. Capt. Small lives at Burnt Cove - about 4 miles from here. Samuel thinks of going to see him tomorrow. A big nigger on board the Governor, the Cook I believe (Samuel thought he would weigh two hundred) got very mad or crazy, threatened to kill himself and others, was saucy to the Capt. and withal became so furious that it took five or six men to handle him. They got him down, tied his feet together and his hands behind him, and stowed him away in the forecastle - poor fellow, I pitied him, to lie in that situation all day. The Capt. said he never knew him to have such a spell before. Samuel saw him- I did not. There is a mill near here running now