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50 this magnanimous determination of Lieut Col O'Brian. It was this day that I was initiated into the Merits of Mint Juleps & other "drinks" prepared under the Superlative of my worthy friend & comrade Judge B____ X This sort of soldiering is not unpleasant, & for Volunteers it must be confessed we are not particularly disobedient to orders.

[marked out: Commodore Moore took a Mexican vessel laden with ?, but in bringing her in by some maneuver or another she got aground near the San Bernard River ]]