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other two they will not trouble. The cook is now on shore in the Staunton and we are waiting for the Chanachens to bring him down. The one that stops here is from Haddam, by the name of Hubbard.

Jno and Chauncey will not write because we have so little oil, but we have the more slayrides to have, that's all.

Them pigs that I wrote you about, if you don't come for them soon will be roasted.

I think it is time your cattle were turned out to grass. If you go fishing for shad I hope you'll not forget your errand, but taking a few shad by the neck will not compare to killing the monstrous whale, notwithstanding she often cuts dirt with our feeble boats, knocking us sky high with her ponderous flukes.

Tell Alanson it is time to stop sawing, if he goes afishing to plow and get his business so as to leave his family.

I have received no news from you since I left. If I don't receive a line from you by the Globe or Maria you'll not ex- pect to hear any more of my slack till I come with my bodily presence.

Be so good as to write me a little of everything. Should any of my acquaintances think of writing don't discourage them. I should have wrote several letters had I time but the ship is not full and the chance of passage uncertain and but a few moments since I thought of writing.

I must now leave writing, wishing you to give my due re- spects to my parents and brother, with other respective friends.

N. B. This I put on board of Ship Iris of Newbedford, which will be as speedy as any opportunity I know of now.

Worahoo, one of the Sandwich Islands.

Dated April llth, A. D. 1823. E. Wright.

Addressed,

Samuel Wright,

Saybrook,

in Connecticut. Written on back, Rec'd 17th April, 1824.