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they tie tails together and let them go – anything to while the time away.  Today when the barge of niggers came alongside they threw pennies down & it was the fun of the world to see the niggers scrambling in the coal & tossing one another about to get the coins.

Tuesday 14 15th.10.18
Weather lovely still in C[ape] T[own] deadly works trying to kill time, several more boats have arrived today for coal but they will have to wait for awhile about 20 ships waiting for coal – we got another barge alongside as it was urgent for us to push on being a

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