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1865-03-19-Page 03

My experience with the stingaree made me rather cautious. There was a Captain in the hospital here when we came here, that had been pretty badly cut to pieces by a sawfish in the surf.
I was out & hour or two last Thursday & I shot 8 fish that would weigh about 3 pounds apiece & they were very good. If there were not orders against shooting I could kill all the fish we would want easily. As it is we have to buy of the fisermen. We buy most of our provisions at the commissary & they generally calculate to keep on hand some things on purpose for officer's sales & not to issue. Some times we get a few cans of peaches, tomatoes, or condensed milk & 10 or 12 days ago we got 8 gallons of good krout & now you had better think I have feasted since. We some times get potatoes & onions &c. & we can buy many things at the sutlers that we do not on account that they are so high that our salleries would fail to reach.

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My experience with the stingaree made me rather cautious. There was a Captain in the hospital here when we came here, that had been pretty badly cut to pieces by a sawfish in the surf. I was out & hour or two last Thursday & I shot 8 fish that would weigh about 3 pounds apiece & they were very good. If there were not orders against shooting I could kill all the fish we would want easily. As it is we have to buy of the fisermen. We buy most of our provisions at the commissary & they generally calculate to keep on hand some things on purpose for officer's sales & not to issue. Some times we get a few cans of peaches, tomatoes, or condensed milk & 10 or 12 days ago we got 8 gallons of good krout & now you had better think I have feasted since. We some times get potatoes & onions &c. & we can buy many things at the sutlers that we do not on account that they are so high that our salleries would fail to reach.