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lies almost motionless, and we expect a good night's rest. 

 When we shall get another, I can't say. I am tired enough 

 to do else than write, but improve the last opportunity to send 

 by the pilot a letter home to the friends I've left behind. 

 There are twelve cabin passengers. The Captain's wife is 

 aboard. There are 40 sailors and hands and 50 2d cabin and 

 steerage passengers. Mr. J. T. Norton identified me at the 

 Metropolitan Bank. I procured a Bill of Exchange for 50 

 Pounds sterling of Brown Brothers and Co., 59 Wall Street, 

 for which I paid $243.89, the rest of my funds is in Am. Gold, 

 by advice of Mr. Brown. I procured a Passport at the Custom 

 House. I enclosed to J. C. E. my 3d of Exchange, reserving 

 2 copies for myself. Pa will please take charge of it. It needs 

 no endorsement, as Mr. Brown told me. I left my trunk at 

 Taylor's Hotel, containing my daguerreotype which is some- 

 what damaged, and ' ' Memorials of Prof. J. P. Norton, ' ' given 

 me by his Father. Wednesday A.M. Fine clear morning. 

 We are getting under weigh, and have every prospect of get- 

 ting outside the Hook in an hour or so. The sailors make a 

 lot of music, and of a rather pleasing character. 



Among Mr. Johnson's fellow passengers were Pro- 

 fessor Noah Porter, afterward President of Yale Uni- 

 versity, Mrs. Porter and Mr. E. Norton of Farmington, 

 Connecticut, a brother of Professor J. P. Norton. Mr. 

 Mason C. Weld, who had been a student of scientific 

 agriculture under Professor Norton from 1848 to 1853, 

 accompanied Mr. Johnson from New York and was his 

 roommate during the whole of his stay in Germany. 



Mr. Johnson wrote from Liverpool on June 1: 



We arrived here Monday May 30th, later than we antici- 

 pated on account of losing our wind. Yesterday the whole 

 party of the New World's cabin, except one, went together 

 to St. James' Park, and witnessed part of a cricket match. 



