Thursday 5 June 2008

Diary 6.6.1883



Wednesday June 6


A fine morning but still very cold and wet, it began to hail in the afternoon. We thought we had plenty of cold weather in England but it is nothing to compare with what we have now, the hail stones are as large as nuts.
Emily Ann has had the backdoor trots with the pills and port wine, she only took three doses of it and then sent it back to the Doctor, then he gave her arrowroot and I had to begin making gruel thrice a day. Lat.43.22 Long. 85.5E distance 263 miles.

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