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English Bay. Wednesday June 10
As the wind is favorable but light we conclude to sail and all in ready by 9 GM.
The boat is a forlome about 30 feet long mist and can take up two or three of them = tentions boat.
two masts. It is the boat of Mr. Danielas Poizer and he in has charge of it. For fifteen years he has sailed it around the island carrying mail and provision.
He says the island is 130 miles long. It is 2 1/2 miles to West End Light from English Bay, then 50 miles to South East Light and 10 miles more to Salt Lakes. He has with him on this trip his son Edmund,
and have a gray man to assist one in Mr. William Rogers. He is to stay with me on shore and help generally when the boat is fixed to leave one on account of the weather. All in to cost one five dollars per day.