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A Sentimental Sketch The following diary entry belongs to William Hodges, Captain Cook’s painter on his voyage to discover Terra Australis. August 5, 1774 ― Georg saw my drawings of Sophy, and I told him all about them. ― I was on deck appreciating the sun’s slip beneath the clouds on the horizon. The beauty of the sunset on the main, so rosy, soon stirred up a longing to return to the previous week, if not a sharp melancholy about my future with Sophy that would not be. So I took out her sketched profile in a bid to sooth my heart―and savor...
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