[Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Maria Mitchell]@TWC D-Link bookMaria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals CHAPTER IV 10/46
We are just where we stopped at noon yesterday--there is no change, and of course no event. One of our crew killed a 'possum yesterday, and another boat stopped near us this morning, and seems likely to lie as long as we do on the sand-bar. "We read Shakspere this morning after breakfast, and then betook ourselves to the wheel-house to look at the scenery again.
While there a little colored boy came to us bearing a waiter of oranges, and telling us that the captain sent them with his compliments.
We ate them greedily, because we had nothing else to do. "21st.
Still the sand-bar.
No hope of getting off.
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