[?] Messrs Nelson and Peckover the only two that were his confidants — at last Captn Bligh said Mr Fryer what do you think of that land ahead. I said [was?] what I first thought it was, Islands Why did not you give your oppinion before — You must have heard me say sir that they was Islands when we first saw them, but as you did not ask me my oppinion — I did not think it proper to give it — hell sir, he said what is best to do now I said go in for the land that we have been running from — the boat was wore and brought on the other [Tack?] and the wind freshen'd [so?] very much [oblige?] us to reef the sails and the sea began to run pretty high and foul — Captn Bligh was in a great