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Bounty Logbook Jul 22, 1788

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HKFCoursesWindsTher.Rems: Tuesday 22nd. July 1788 Observations
17"EBSWest"The Gales so very heavy and Sea so high that we cannot steer our Course being obliged to keep before the Sea.
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38
4848¾°It now became highly dangerous to run any longer I therefore lay too under a Reefed Fore Stay Sail and a Mizn Staysail, & Lowered the Lower Yards half Mast down. I had scarce got every thing done before we experienced as heavy a Storm as ever blew Hail and Sleet, the Sea also exceedingly high.
516NWBN
614
714NNWWBS
81644½°
914NBW½WBy a Violent Blow from a heavy Sea on the Quarter the Man at the Wheel was thrown over and was much bruized.
1016
1116
121644½°All Night a Fire was kept in and the People could sit tolerably well by it & dry Cloaths.
116NNW
214
314
41444¾°
516
616The violence of the storm began now to abate, and 'tho still blowing exceedingly hard was bearable to what we had suffered in the course of the Night.
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81646°
914"""Bore away under a Reefed Foresail with a high Sea and a hard Gale. Gave my People a Hot Breakfast of thick Gruel mixed with Portable Soup.
107ESE At 22h..35′ Latd. 38°..56′ So
Longd. T:K = 61..38 Et
116SEBE½E
1256WSW49½°The Gale still moderating. Empd all the Forenoon drying and making the People as comfortable as possible. Bright intervals of Sun Shine with Some Squalls of Sleet.
79Meridian. Altd.
OdotCenter
31°..01′
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17370
 LatitudeLongitude
CourseDist.Obsd.D. R.D. R.T. K.L. & T. K. 
No58°E9738°..49′So38°..49′So61°..22′E61°..48′Et 

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