File #46609: "James Cameron 1900 Diary 17.pdf"

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{page one} James Cameron Island 11th of June fine Mr and Mrs John Cameron arrived here on the Pitt Point at the new house seems to be a very fine woman tried trowling lost the spoon and line Fernandez to Haggerty's for a trowling line and Spoon meat raisins pickles sugar pepper apples 12th fine Eclipse Mr Hollister here gave me a new trowling line left 4 fish 2 bass and 2 perch Mrs Cameron out fishing and trowling 13th fine E Wind put the plow through the corn Fernandez went to work at the roads for Randolph Mr and Mrs John Cameron of Kansas went up to Mr Curry's today left me a box of cigars when he came Leander went up with them caught a Lunge rained tonight 14th fine day Corpus Christe fixing the Windows Fernandez came from the Roads {page two} James Cameron Island 15th of June 1900 fine Fernandez went to the roads Leander went to mail 4 of wheat took swans engineer to Stanley Island Stanley hoeing the corn mowing grass for the Bull 16th fine Began the Battle of Waterloo clabording the North Side W W Stanley hoing corn the Caterpillar busy in the bush eating the leaves of the trees bugs at the potatoes mosquitoes bad piling up rubbish at the yard fence 17th Corpus Christie fine day East Wind Mr Genie here brought me a Channel Catfish gave him a good bag of potatoes some eggs some butter lost his trowling line Gordon here 18th the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo fine E Wind put the plough through the potatoes Leander to Jo Douquetts with 2 tubs of butter and 28 Doz of Eggs went to Upper Point
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