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Thursday, November 14th

Middle watch last night and very cold. Lat. 45.26 S., Long. 56.14. Calculating this place to be 5,000 miles from Port Lyttelton, an average rate of 150 miles will take us in thirty-two days—ninety-nine days from Plymouth. A stove has been lighted in the cuddy but it is a great nuisance with its smoke and close smell. The cold is really intense and the misery caused by there being no refuge from it is widely spread through cuddy, intermediate and steerage.