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considered to have the best chance of arriving the first at 
Southampton, for though she was not to start till twenty- 
four hours later, she was going straight home, instead of 
calling at Cape Coast Castle; but we thought the new 
ship preferable, and liked the captain whom we knew, so 
remained in the Anglian." As it turned out we beat 
the other vessel by two whole days. Steamed out of dock 
at 4 p.m., and immediately came in for a heavy swell, and 
accordingly, as usual, both rapidly succumbed and retired 
below. A lot of miserable bullocks lashed by their heads 
to the taffrail on the quarter deck — poor brutes, they 
rolled and blundered about with every lurch, evidently in 
great suffering, falling down with great violence on the 
deck, and then struggling to get up again, it seemed to 
me great cruelty; however, many were soon out of their 
misery, for they began to die off rapidly, and I don't 
think half arrived alive at Cape Coast Castle. 
December bth. Sea less rough, and consequently felt 
more comfortable. Kemp still very poorly. Luckily the 
fine weather now set in, or one more such another twenty- 
four hours as the last would have polished off every 
bullock, and the chance of Christmas beef for the troops 
would have been small indeed. We had favourable winds 
and bowled along at a good pace up the west coast. 
Everything much more comfortable on board this ship 
than the one we came out in. There are very few 
passengers on board, and it is difiicult to get up a rubber, 
or any diversion, to break the monotony of a long sea 
voyage. We had a slight row in the smoking room last 
evening, which gave us a topic for conversation for a few 
hours. One obnoxious individual chose to be facetious, 
and angered a hot-headed passenger named Pitt, by 
adding the not inappropriate adjective, bottomless/' to 
his cognomen; but the latter not appreciating the joke 
