It then end.ed. with a Christm.as Song. After that the Gaptain
gave ord.er.s to bring a bag fuII of books onto the deck and. he
gave each./Book, or soue read-tng mattere as a Christuas present.
titth fair r"iind and good. sailing we passed. the line on
Znd.. January , t.854, Af ter that, a ferv d.ays qulte calu so that
the sea looked. ltke a xoirror ancl our shlp looked as. though it
were tied- up, the sails hung flat on the roast, The vslnd. fl-ag
also hung flat;
The people on the shlp 1et thelr head.s hang and. were vrish-
i-hng for a breeze, and. it happened- as r,re passed. the tropics that
we ha.d- no good. r'rater to d.rinlc. There was no shortag;e of r'rater,
but it nas almost und.rinkable. AIl passengers l{ere alloted. a
bottle of it.
Aftcr lying quiet f or abcut six d-ays the rsind cene a.qain
and. d.rove ollr ship southr so that lie e after 10 d.ays e ltent pasb
trto surall but hi6h isle.nds, Triniclad. ancl l,iartin Voze caue out
of the Tropics and" coulcl breath f restr air again.
The Qaptaine after passing the 
Group geve orders to
steer east, r,ihere trtre, by gocd- uind., m.ad.e 10 sea miles per hour.
fhen camc sucLclenly at night a tropica.l storm rvhich seemeo- to
break u-p our ship. Ther:e r,ras a noise r,..ihich woke all passengers,
even the Captain, tr'trho t'ras never on d.uty at night. i{e came on
Ceck and. gave ord.ers for all pa.ssengers to go tc their cabins,
ad.d.ing, :'ff rnre alre d.ue to go dorvn it vdIl hit the d.eck man as
vlell as those in their cabins"o Iie l'ias hoping for God.os help
tc sa.ve us.
Not long after, Lhe Captain l.renL back to his cabin and-
Ief t command in the Cf f icer I s hancls.
Through the Captain leaving deck l're could. feel the worst
Il,ras O1ref .
I,Ihen r're got up in the morninG, l.re coulcl see the d.amage.
!- LZf oot mast vras broken in the midd.Ie, the end- hanging over
the ships sid.e ltith tackling. 
Seven sails r,rere also harrging
overboard., soue vrashed- into the seao Some they could. repair
and some had. to be replacecl ivith nerr ones. There ?{a.s extra r"rork
for the shipss crer,r, the cerpe ntcrs ha.c1 to rig a nevl u.ast. It
took several hands help to rig it up.
I'Ihen everything i.ras in ord.er l're got ayrajr to a good r:ind.,
and d-aiIy got about 200 miles closer to Australia.
Sund-ay the IIf Epiphany there came a ci:ange. I vras on
d.ech looking et the open air. 
The Captain also i,ras on d.eck,
and he seemecl to be looking a liit1e uneasy. i{e then gave
ord.ers to soine sailors to d-rar.l in sone top sails and bold. me
to go to my cabin until the neather lrould. be oyer.
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