Mar 1899 Pacific Ocean
Returned to Sf. At 4-05 P. M. we set sail for Society Islands on board the ship Galilee. In command of Cap. F. B. Dinsmore On board besides Elder Hansen I were Messers Attwater, Mooath, Barnet &.
first & second mate, six sailors & one pet dog Baby, the pet of the crew, there were also pigs & chickens which were desposed of for food during the voyage.
The ships cargo cansisted of lumber, hard ware, dry goods, groceries etc. The Galilee has a displacement of
After biding friends on the wharf good by we sailed were drawn out by the steam tug, beneath the cheers & waving hankerchiefs of the crowd of people that stood on the pier and were soan out of Golden Gate where the tugg left us and we wer
11 Mar. 1899 Pacific Ocean
alone upon the high seas. The wind was favorable, the sea quite rough. I enjoyed being rocked and tossed by the huge waves untill nearly dark, when began to feel dizzy, my inward organs began to feel troubled. A and soon all the life sustaining substance with in me made its way out at the same source that it came went in, I felt that I was sea sick. With the last view of my native land I went to the cabin to spend the night by being rocked in the cradel of the deep, like the infant child in the the cradel of wood.
Sat. 4:- Sea modrate, wind favorable, Sea sickness still remained, our general course being South, South West.
Sun. 5. Weather & sea fair.
This being fast day it was observed by Elder Hansen & I.
one reason for my observing it might be sighted. I was not able to do otherwise. I had suficently recovered to put in an offerance at the supper table at 5 P. M. having eaten nothing since bording the ship.