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Savannah Ga.
Towards Liverpool Eng
Outward Bound

as a bucket of water. In night mild &
clear wind W.S.W. Course E by N 1/2 N.
6 Days from Savannah.

Saturday Dec 3d 1859
Beings with light airs from
Westward. At 6 AM, shifted studding sails to
port. In forenoon setting up Topmast. TGal & Royal
backstays, fore & main. We are getting along very
slowly, only being in about 35.30 N. Lat & 65.00
W. Long. It seems more than one short week that
we have now been at sea, but then it takes
a good while to get used to sea life. One would
think that by this time it would seem like a part
of my life to be on the ocean, but I cannot forget
the precious years of my home intercourse: how much
I enjoyed home & friends & opportunities for improving
my mind & heart. The joy of those years still lights
my pathway, and I ever thank God that my early
years were thus blessed. I have not sundered
from home so long & so far but that the
love of warm hearts there is so interwoven
with mine that it cannot broken, and