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75 Napolean (Warren) arrived this afternoon. I followed him instanter up to the tent. The budget ones unveilled. I looked with eager eye on the disclosed packet of letters. Good! tin for Señor - two for one by jingo! I seized the welcome documents and bounded like a deer down the hill. Ah! happy minutes: when after a long five months - my eyes rested on the white page written quite over in familiar hand. 'Tis home again in the strange land! There may be bad news - trembling I read when the all will - leaves me to funise the rest with pleasure. The Cholera has touched none of them. What's the wails gear compared with the life of friends. Set good in ill befall - they are all alive. One of my letters was from home - the other from Doctor. Long expectation is answered - long anxiety allayed. I am in gay spirits - not so the Paysons. I stopped at the mouth of their tent - they were weeping - bad news. O ye letters! that ye bring evil as well as good. Ye are the messengers of of soorow as well as of joy. My gladness is checked in the sorrow of any good neighbors.
Teusday December 18th. 1849.
Mining has its vexations as well as other kinds of business. Yesterday the rains prevented us from labour - to day the high water. Another rapid side has occurred in the stream. It has been a most pleasant day - warm sunshine and blue sky. Wind East and Southerly. Bought in stove tent for $18.10. Put it up and then - reared on the top of a high tree - whose branches I cut away. The little mine I manufactured last night. It looks quite diminutive on the huge oak trunks. Little index of the sky - telegraph of the winds - let me be like the faithful to appreciate every impulse - but not like the blown about by every wind of wood or doctrine. The little monitor - points out the invisible - it connects our minds - to those great influences which circle our world - and by its tongue tells of the instruments by which [Natise?] - performs wonderful marks. The wind - so strong - so mighty - yet its secrets are told by the little vane.