if possible try to leave of the life of voyaging from clime to clime seeking after a fortune that is always going against me. I hope you have received all my correspondence as you say in your own letter. My dear boy I am like the ocean bird no not where to be found or where to rest but I hope New Zealand will be my place of aboad before long. I have not heard from my sisters or aunts since I left last March river Clyde and you will be pleased to here I had no less than 4 Tyree men out with me in the Nepaul, one of them a son of Mr Jno McLean Coalus. Do you recollect calling there and getting a drink of milk when you came