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Heritage
A PAGE FHOM THE DIABY
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SCHOONER CAPTAINj
Editor*8 Note:	Among	the	papers	givenbby Roland Weston to
his cousin, Mrs. Lamar Otis, were the pages
night. Monday morning took 6 passengers on board, hove anchor up and started for New Orleans, the wind N.E. Got to the mouth of the Pearl River and the wind howled to the South. Had fair wind to the mouth of the Rigolets and the wind oame out from the S.W., we beat up to the point, and the wind howled around to the South again, and we got in the pickets just at day light, made up the sails, and towed right upstorm and we oould not get out, pulled
Captain. An exoerpt is reprinted here
through the courtesy of the Otis family
illhe year 1868)
We lay to anchor Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday