Chapter VIII: Part 8

we was 16 days comming over hear we had fight
fog all the way over and lots of head wind
I thought we was never gone to get here
Barbara I am sending your things to you I
spoke to the old man about them and he
made no after to send then so I thought
I would send them to you

I hop you get them all right

we will be here about a week longer yet for we
leave I don’t no where we are gone from hear
yet

well So long Barbara from your shipmate

W H m

♦ _Good-bye, Shipmates!_ ♦

There they are. W. H. M. is William Henry McLeod. There is my shipmate. I’ve told you all about him that I know--and all that I know about the trip.

And so, Alan, with hearty, piratical good wishes for the best of luck--good-bye!

Your shipmate,
Blackheart

NOTES

[1] The cook’s pronunciation; I have not found the word as yet. The process is lowering buckets for sea water and washing down the deck.

[2] The beginning of what Roy called “The Rosewood Casket,” as he played and whistled it.

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