—95.-. I have much in my soul. What was to be done? Where to seek guidance – to find another way to – to circumvent the plans, that the path was open-bar good, to the honor of God. Therefore, just as the best races are run, I prayed fervently to God, placed the matter in His hands, and now stood on from the prayer and spoke in the middle of the night in my quiet room so much so that I was frightened almost to my own voice. Now, in the name of God, I bear words of doubt and hesitation no longer in my heart came. I turned to one and then to another shipbuilder in Bremerhasen. It did not work, one let not the matter in, the other imposed conditions that I could not fulfill. It was said: let the ship be built in Harburg, that it is a Hansehaven and you must let the ship, if it is built in the Bremerhafen, go to Harburg. And so it was. The storm, in Harburg, addressed the matter with the shipbuilder Renck. He was willing and came here, brought drawings, and when I asked: what should the ship be, if it is built solid, –—.--·«..-...-.—-· fixed and ready with 2c., but of course without rigging. The answer was: 8100 HE. I was astonished that it was not anymore and immediately struck one; until Michaelis 1853 saber should be completed and Stürye took over the management of the upper. That is when I saw God's finger again, and Er used my foolishness to make the matter easier for me. A ship that travels to the East – mostly in the hot regions of the Earth, must, so far as it goes in water, be coated with copper, so that the dangerous worms, which are in the hot seas, do not come to the wood. I then thought in my simplicity: a solid and a copperized

—95.- I have much in my soul. What was to be done? Where to seek guidance – to find another way to – to circumvent the plans, that the path was open-bar good, to the honor of God. Therefore, just as the best races are run, I prayed fervently to God, placed the matter in His hands, and now stood on from the prayer and spoke in the middle of the night in my quiet room so much so that I was frightened almost to my own voice. Now, in the name of God, I bear words of doubt and hesitation no longer in my heart came. I turned to one and then to another shipbuilder in Bremerhasen. It did not work, one let not the matter in, the other imposed conditions that I could not fulfill. It was said: let the ship be built in Harburg, that it is a Hansehaven and you must let the ship, if it is built in the Bremerhafen, go to Harburg. And so it was. The storm, in Harburg, addressed the matter with the shipbuilder Renck. He was willing and came here, brought drawings, and when I asked: what should the ship be, if it is built solid,——.--·«..-...-.—-· fixed and ready with 2c., but of course without rigging. The answer was: 8100 HE. I was astonished that it was not anymore and immediately struck one; until Michaelis 1853 saber should be completed and Stürye took over the management of the upper. That is when I saw God's finger again, and Er used my foolishness to make the matter easier for me. A ship that travels to the East – mostly in the hot regions of the Earth, must, so far as it goes in water, be coated with copper, so that the dangerous worms, which are in the hot seas, do not come to the wood. I then thought in my simplicity: a solid and a copperized