Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
We had a heavy gale on the th and
we were driving under head winds and bare poles during the
day and in the evening about 9 o'clock the gale increased and
it seaemed as though the yards would be torn from the mast
We kneeled before the Lord and prayed unitedly that he would
cause the gale to cease and the wind to change that we might
go forward and not backward. In a little time the wind
suddenly ceased and finally changed to the south-west which
gave us fair wind
Christmas day on the ocean which
was the first one I ever spent at sea. We had preserve pudding
for dinner and short cake. We enjoyed ourselves had a light
breeze and one sail in sight
We entered the Irish Channel on the
