.MTA0Ng.Njk3Mzk

From Newberry Transcribe
Jump to navigation Jump to search

241 them- we finished coaling about 11 Pm a most splendid moonlight Evening, and most of the passengers on Deck- I was below part of the Eve writing letters, to mail on our arrival at Aspinwall, home! about 12 at night- we got underway again, and past slowly down the harbor on our way out to sea again, were obliged to go slow on account of so crooked and narrow a Channel- before starting from the Wh? our pilots hung a lantern on one of the buoys, down the harbor, so as not mistake them, as we came down- we past the Port about 1/2 past 12- where we fired a salute as we passed /as is customary/, and on we went- discharged our pilots about 1, when clear of all land, and on we went again- I remained on Deck till our pilots left- and we were fairly out to sea once more- and then retires. Thursday April 13h,- Pleasant, but some rough this Am, many of our passengers are seasick again today- we took on board some 6 or 8 more passengers at Kingston one a black fellow, her was so frightened by the steerage passengers- telling him they would sell him for a slave on our arrival at aspinwall,-