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run has been our best--339 I think, but am too indolent to verify it.
We have one poor little consumptive on board, who enlists everybody's
sympathies. We have many charming people on board, and by this time I
have spoken to almost everybody, though I don't know all their names.
Saw a ship, but I think nothing else. In the evening went up to the
top-gallant forecastle, to see the sunset, which was disappointing.
It made me "giddy," and I hope I shall not have to go up again.

JULY 3.---The excitement in the air to-day is the getting up of a
programme to celebrate the "Fourth." It looks an entertaining one
enough. We have had a "choppy sea" all day, owing, I suppose, to the
direction of the wind, and the boat has been rolling dreadfully all day
so that we have not been able to take our usual walks. It causes much
amusement at table, where, in spite of the four guards all the length
of the table, the dishes dance first on one side and then on the other,
and occasionally something has to be rescued. H. and I tried to walk
arm-in-arm, but had to give it up after a few turns. Saw a schooner
to-day, which we overtook and passed. It was a pretty sight, but I
could not help but think how much more it was to them than to us.

JULY 4.---A beautiful, beautiful day. The put up the flag-signals
from deck to mast head at the stern, and the American flag at the
bow. All the camera fiends, myself included, went up to the forecastle
and "snapped" at the flags. In the afternoon the sailors played
some games for our amusement on the saloon deck, forward. First, they
put their feet into a bag which was tied around their waists, and ran a
race. Prizes of money were given to the winners. Then they ran a
three-legged race, then a wheel-barrow race, one man walking or running
on his hands, with his feet held in the air by the man behind him. Then