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May 5, 1841

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May 05, 1841 ~ Wednesday

5^th We have a warm plesent morning but almost a dead
calm we sail about 2 not an hour they sounded
but could not find bottom. we saw a large school
of to the north of us. Elder
lost a this morning 6 weeks old, his died
a short time before he set sail the body of this child
was committed to a watery grave by sewing it up in
a cloth tying a stone to it & sinking it in the sea on
the banks of in Lat 42.25 Long 50.10
we had a vary chilly fog in the evening

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