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Desolation Bay Sept.r 9th 1890

Dr Dick

I have been Considering this half hour,
for a Name proper to give our Habitation & I
assure you I can't think of a fitter than Desolation
Bay. paint in your imagination a Stoney Beach of
50 or 60 Miles Covered with Drift Wood, and the
prospect ending with Mountains covered with Everlasting
Snow, a parcel of old Houses, a half Starved
Wood and four poor Solitary Englishmen, Cursing
their Hard fate; you will have a just picture of
our House and Domain, I assure you I never Lived
So Lonesome in my Life, and I heartily Wish I was
once more hawling of Ropes in Old England, and
getting my Bread with the Sweat of my Brow —
I have been for this Week past Living the Woods till
I am almost froze to Death, for here tho' but the
Beginning of Sept.r yet all Standing Waters are
already Froze; and as I have no warm Cloaths
Living in a Tent at present is very disagreeable:
Indeed I shall be forced to Live here the Winter
without a Tube, for I cannot buy the Commonest
for Less than 40 or 50 Rubles, which is a Sum
I can but ill spare at present, to mend

Identifier: | JB/541/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
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