Friday April 13
Up at 7:15 two ships in sight, a very good and fair wind but noting to boast of only run 115 miles. The single young women had a concert last night on the poop and married were allowed to go, but not the
young men. They were very disappointed, the first mate had to keep an eye on them, one of them from Shipley thought he would do something clever and tried to get up, the first mate told him to go down the steps and he would not so knocked him right from the top to the bottom and it served him right, he was in bed almost all day after. The concert passed off well. We spoke a ship today the “Lock Garra” (there was a Loch Garry built in 1875, on the Glasgow to Melbourne run) bound for Melbourne, it left Grenoch at same time as us, it is a larger ship than the “Nairnshire” having four masts. A beautiful moonlight night.
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