Ralph Clark - journal kept on the Friendship during a voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island ...

July 16, 1787
 
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Munday the 16

thank God for having the Wind a little More fair that we had it for the 3 weeks past -hope we will get into port in a fortnight now if this wind stands -Read the remainder of the Tragady of Douglas this oh it is a Sweet play -what ane innocent Sweet Speech that is of Young Norval when he informs Lord and Lady Randolph whome he is and wher his father lives, on the Grampine hills -My father feeds his flock [etc] [etc] and what are the emotions in the Breast of Lady Randolph when She Sees the features and shape of her lost and Stained Husband Douglas in that of Young Norval -little dose She know fond Mother that he is her long lost Son or she would not have let him gone to the field with her Lord -What a Villain Glenalvon is if it had not been for him her Son had lived and She fond mother had not taken the rash step which She did -but Still I cannot think that She Loved

 
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