26th At is stormy today, beating against
A strong head wind in the Irish Chan-
nel do not gain any ownly hold our
own besides in danger of being
wreked on shore we are all sea sick
in our state room. Mr Hastings is
A Gentleman And A peaceable man
Mr Cox his bedfellow was of A different
Stamp He left our room & took up his
quarters with another man As he founly [found]
no gamblers or blacklegs in our room
we were glad to get rid of him as
he was A quarrelson man
we had A terrible night gale of wind run
under Almost bare poles dangerous business
this I pray the Lord to give us a change
of wind soon
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