we were about leaving on board of a steemer for Thomaston in all
places as we passed along cannon were fired in honor of the 4^th A
Table was set at Thomaston for 800 men to take dinner but I
should feel more like fasting & praying on the 4^th of July than
making a display of Celebration untill the Latter Day
saints and all people could have the privilege of worshiping
God according to the dictates of their own conscience without
having there brains blown out for it. And now while I write
a Company is passing my door in the street dressed in all the Horid
form that the ingenuity of man could form up one would suppose
that the inhabitants of the bottomless pit had come forth in
possession I wrote a letter to Mrs Woodruff 50 m

July 5, 1849 ~ Thursday

5^th I baptized Mr Priom Pease which made some stir among the
people I dined with Brother Peas spent the afternoon with
Knowlton & night with John Luce

July 6, 1849 ~ Friday

6^th It is a hard rainy day I seem to be weather bound in
Thomaston am waiting for Passage to New Brunswick

I found 8 members of the Church in South St George 7 in Thomaston
[FIGURE] I wrote two letters one to Little & Hardy one to J. Gibson

July 7, 1849 ~ Saturday

7^th I took passage on board of the schooner Cashier capt Eligah
S Blaisdell & Capt Archibal Spear, & Mr Sterrett, Cook and
myself composed all on board bound for Machias we run
with a faair wind as far as Musketoe Harbor & put in & spent
the night as it was foggy & we could not run 60 m

July 8, 1849 ~ Sunday

8^th Sunday foggy I lay in Harbor all day staid on bord the
rest went to Meeting

July 9, 1849 ~ Monday

9^th Still foggy all day No wind lay in Harbor Capt Spear
lay in Harbor & caught 20 lobsters I took cold settelled
on my lungs & made me sick side & breast sore & lame we
walked out & picked 2 quarts of strawburies & had a feast
of them

July 10, 1849 ~ Tuesday

10^th Still foggy I preached in the afternoon to the people at
winter Harbor

July 11, 1849 ~ Wednesday

11^th Spent the day in the harbor no wind to get out

July 12, 1849 ~ Thursday

12 Still foggy I went onto the Mountain with the capt a light
breeze came up we went to the ship sailed out of the
harbor a dead calm & fog came on & tide carried us back
into the Harbor again. I had conversation with Capt
Bieford who gets his living by whaleing in this bay he
has caught 3 this season he is the ownly person carrying
on the whaleing business in this country

July 13, 1849 ~ Friday

13^th No wind we are all getting about discouraged we have now been
5 days confined in this Harbor I caught 2 skates the first
I ever saw. we beat out of the Harbor 3 times during the
night wind would die away & we would flote back again
into the Harbor so in the morning we found our selves in
the same place we started from. The Capt was discouraged
& went to bed. A light breeze arose & we labored hard & got
out we then got a breeze from the south west & left the
Harbor for good whare we had been confined for a week
we had a good run through the day & entered Macbias port
at 10 oclok at night 60 mils.