March 29, 1865 pg 3

dolce far niente, -- which,
being interpreted, means, a cozy,
lazy, don't-care-a-fig-ativeness.
A total lack of anxiety as to
the prosperity of our system of
popular education, (Don't care
whether school keeps or not.) And
I partake of the general lassi-
tude. In fact, I am too
absolutely lassitudenous to
write. I can safely promise
you a brief infliction in this.
One sixteen page letter will do
for one short voyage.

We have been in sight of
the coast nearly all the way
up. Yesterday we ran close
along side the land and so
were favored with a long
panorama of the grand cliffs
and peaks of the Mexican
coast. I have never made
this voyage so close in shore