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Down North

Fort Norman
July 28.

My dear Excellency,

I dont know if you
have ever been in a ship
when it stops to have its
boilers washed. It means no
light & no water for 36 hours.
No light doesn't matter for
it barely gets dark at night
but no water means that
we join the ancient fraternity
of the great unwashed. We are
however ahead of time, as we
got through the sometimes stormy