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pect to walk to Dennysville to day, and to return 

 to morrow. 



If possible I shall send you a few lines just before 

 I sail. Any letters that come had better be retained 

 at home, for there can be no certainty that any 

 communication would reach me. I received your 

 last inclosing one from Brune on Wednesday. B. 

 tells me his brother has gone to the western coast of 

 South America, as supercargo to a vessel, where the 

 cargo Is worth seventy thousand dollars. What an 

 undertaking for a young man only eighteen years of 

 age. The vessel laelongs to a merchant in Balti- 

 more a friend of his fathers. 



Do let me find a letter at Eastport on my return, 

 giving an account of whatever has happened during 

 my absence. It is not with indiilerence, I assure you 

 that I contemplate, an absence of three months in 

 which I probably shall not hear a word from home. 

 But there is a God who orders all things for the 

 best, and in whose hands we all are. Let me then 

 again subscribe myself, 



Your's dutifully and affectionately 



G. C. S., Jr. 



George C. Shattuck, Jr., to his father 



American Harbor, Labrador, June 22, 1833. 

 As a vessel has just come into the harbor I will 

 prepare a letter giving some account of myself since 

 my last dates. Thursday June 6. at twelve oclock 

 our vessel was announced as ready, and our friends 

 who had come on board to bid us farewell, and 

 to look at our accommodations, informed that they 

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