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To us it waswholly incredible how, in that dim remoteness, it could still hold trueto the central force and follow at a snail-pace, yet with unvaryingexactitude, its stupendous orbit. It isn't Holcomb, it's Blackmer. Then camethe leadsman's long-drawn chant, once so familiar, the monotonousrepeating in river parlance of the depths of water. How muchmoney does the devil give you for arraigning Christianity and missionarycauses? But there were more of the better sort.

And ignorantly & unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. He told stories about Howells and Twichell, and how Darwin had gone tosleep reading his books, and then he came down to personal things and ]He did not intend to rest; in another entry we find: May 23, 1897. A few days before Christmas ten bales of hay arrived and several bushelsof carrots.