If this weather is to continue I hope we shall have fortitude to bear it.

All is for the best.
"_Saturday, 9th September._ Nineteenth day out and not yet more than one third of our way to Boston.

Oh! when shall we end this tedious passage?
"_Sunday, 10th September._ Calm with dreadful sea.

Early this morning discovered a large ship to the southward, dismasted, probably in the late gale.

Discovered an unpleasant trait in our captain's character which I shall merely allude to.