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4 would have been in the harbor by this time had it not been for a heavy headwind that began to blow early this morning.
It has been a cold blusterary howling stormy day, with rain hail snow beating the deck besides the waves that are breaking
over the rail. Every moveable thing in the cabin flying from side to side. The weather has been cold all the way from California
First an average day temperature of about 55 , with a gradual fall to 35 . Still I have been very comfortable. The cold wind
is bracing I have the best bed in the ship in which I sleep 9 hours every night. There are but three of us in the cabin, the
Captain the Surgeon myself only the same three at table 1 1881. At sea, 50 miles from Oonalaska Sunday evening, May 15,
half past 6 o clock. half past 9 Alhambra time. in margin: Address John Muir Steamer Thomas Carwig? Oonalaska, care Alaska
Commercial Company San Francisco, Cal. My beloved wife. All goes well on our little ship, not all the tossing of the waves,
the snow hail on the deck being out of sight of land so long can make me surely feel that I am not now with you all as ever,
so sudden was my departure, so long have I been accustomed in the old lonely life to feel the influence of loved ones as if
present in the flesh, while yet far, and so my dear wife own dear child self denying? mother father I seem to be with you
all, so vividly are you present to the inner eye.