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4 huge hearts went beating through the storm bucketfuls of warm blood rushing through their veins at every beat, hundreds
of p illegible too racing gamboling pitching themselves out of the waves in company like rollicking boys at play. forming
a most startling impressive picture of life in the cold barren looking sea-prairie. But now we are just approaching Olympia
I must haste to the end of my sheet The Captain was good to me many others I met I forget to say that the wave tops torn by
the gale illegible spray sand were beautifully illegible . The waters of the Strait of Juca? are black As for that cold I
had it vanished the first day of the gale blown out like a candle. We left the Dakota at Seattle. We may return to Seattle
tomorrow, thence where? The world is all before me. I hope to be able to overcome the Sas illegible but I feel it yet. Sent
you a line from Victoria. Their goes the whistle to the Wharf. Now the engineers bell sounds we slow up A lovely evening?
Thanks for all the Strentzel goodness in margin: I have enjoyed. Farewell Good night John Muir