what some play calls the ‘trembling exies,’ and make more noise than the waves, if possible. We are all in very good health, I should say. George grown fat—Fanny has quite lost her headaches. I am very well, and Dr. Drummond has nearly cured of that sort of hay fever he has had for two years, and which grew much worse during the early part of the voyage.
Will you tell Mr. M that Chance has been the finest invention for a long voyage that ever was heard of? Captain Grey and began by hating him, partly out of respect to the feelings of their own dogs, and partly because they owned they were jealous of his attachment to me, when compared with the cool conduct of their own hardhearted animals; and now they are both devoted to him and his whims. His temper is worse than ever, and he will never let anybody touch him but me, except when he wants to be lifted off the poop, or to be put into the hammock nettings, where he sits for hours looking at the albatroses, and licking his lips at them; and on these occasions his servility to all the midshipmen exceeds his general rudeness; but
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