with a great deal of cheerfullness — I then said to Captn Bligh as [? ? ?] Boat shall I put the helm up sir he said yes in Gods name — it was done and steer'd before the wind and [?] this was between seven and eight oclock at night — we run off from the Land the wind increased and the sea running very high — obliged us to keep the foresail which was the small cutter sail that the Boatswain hove into the Boat — had those people that came into the Boat thought as much about their Books as Captn Bligh and his clerk did the Boat would have turn adrift without oar or sail and no farther say probably — in a Boat with her Bottom almost out