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The journal-letters continue on the 17th of January: 'Wrote a Maori sermon this morning, not feeling able yet to preach extempore in the native language, though it is much better to do so as soon as I can. Now I must stick to the vessel again. I have been quite frisky, really, for two days past, and have actually slept on shore, the fourth time since September 24.

Well, when I was begged to give them an evening, I resolved to try one of those amusing journal-letters, and chose the best, all about how George and a friend went to the different places Dickens describes in some of his funny books.

Then journal-letters on either side began to bridge the gulf of separation, those which, minus all the specially interesting portions, are to be seen in the volume we culled from them, and which had considerable success in its day. Martyn worked in the parish and read with Mr. Henderson till he was old enough for Ordination, and then took the curacy of St.

A few days later she added more commendations to the journal-letters she kept for the anxious mothers at home, and this serio-comical event was the cause of her fresh praises. The occupants of the deck staterooms were wakened in the middle of the night by a crash and a cry, and starting up found that the engines were still, and something was evidently the matter somewhere.

It must of course be remembered that these "Journal-letters" are by no means Swift's only proofs of his epistolary expertness.