Walked up in town with S. today to make a few purchases for home, if opportunity offers to send them, evening spent preparing letters for home, the steamer sails tomorrow, went town to supper to night which we rarely do, Capt. Maling is so happy in anticipation of meeting his little family, who are expected by the next steamer, to go an Indian voyage with him so many vessels have sailed of late that our family is getting small, no (new) arrivals of our friends have been out over 40 days this morning the ground was quite covered with snow an inch deep, which however soon disappeared.