MARK TWAIN

time—find it is only 3 bells in the first watch. It is so
stormy tonight that most of the passengers have gone
to bed seasick, long ago.

We are to be off the coast of Cuba tomorrow, they
say—I cannot believe it.

Folded his hands after his stormy life and slept in
screncst repose under the peaceful sighing of the summer
wind among the grasses over his grave.

A captain who came aboard at Grey Town, where in
3 years he had worn out his constitution and destroyed
hio health, lingered until 10 this morning and then died
and was shoved overboard half an hour afterward, sewed
up in a blanket with 6 Ibs. of iron. He leaves a wife at
Rochester, N. Y. This makes the 4th death on shipboard
since we left San Francisco.

Mrs. Grundy seems to be still on his mind.
He even composes some poetry about her:

She talkcth scandal all day long

With false malicious tongue.
She'd blast the brightest character

That ever poet sung.

Jan. 5. We are to put in at Key West, Florida, today
for coal, for ballast—so they say—but rather for medi-
cines, perhaps—the physic locker is about pumped dry.

7 cases sickness yesterday—didn't amount to anything.

Col. Kinney pretty sick all night with cholera or
cholera morbus.

Shape is said to be dying of cholera, this morning.

There are half a dozen on the sick list today. The
cussed fools let the diarrhea run 2 or 3 days, and then

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