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Bounty Logbook Apr 17, 1789

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HKFCoursesWindsTher.Rems. Friday 17th April 1789 Observations
146WBSEast"Fair Wr. and Hazy.
25
35EBNEmployed mending Hammocks. Cleaning below and Exercising at Small Arms.
4583¾ At 4h..10′ Latd. 19°..05′ S
Longd. T:K = 192..43 E
Varian. pr Azimhs
A Compass 8°..31′ E
 Do. Turned 7..49 
 Mean  8..10 E
556
655"""In 1st. Reefs and Steering Sails.
746
84483
9
4

4
1044
1144"""Light Squalls of Rain.
1236
134
23
34NE
44"""Fair Wr.
54"Out Reefs and set Steering Sails.
6481⅔
744
844"Fine Wr. At 20h..8..9 Latd. 19°..11′..30″ S
Longd. T:K = 191..31..07 E
Varian pr. Azimhs
A Compass 7°..28′ E
 Do. Turned 8..32 
 Mean  8..00 E
Odot & reduced to same time
Ramsdens B 191°..32′..13″
Troughton H 191..44..15 
 Mean  191..38..34 E
T:K — Obs =    7..27 E


Current by Time Keeper
S62E dist 2½ miles
941W½SServed fresh Pork, Plantains & Tarro to the People.
1042A Brown Booby and Several Tropic Birds seen.
1146
124684Do. Wr. Sick List One Venereal, one recovering from a Flux, and an Invalid from a fall off Cape Horn.
107Meridian. Altd.
OdotCenter
60°..17′15″
28216
28323
 LatitudeLongitudeRems    
CourseDist.Obsd.D. R.D. R.T. K.L. & T. K.Savage Island by
T:K = N79W 47 Miles.
W3°S10719°..10′..30″S19°..09′S190°..41′E191°..12′Et191°..22′E

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Remarks

My discovering of the Island of Whytootackee made me lay aside an inclination I had of seeing Palmerstons Islands, as by that means I should follow more directly a new track towards Savage Island, which I intend to make from no other motive than to compare the situation I may find it in with that established by Captn. Cook, with which I agreed in our Voyage in 1777, making it to lie in 19°..01′S Latd and 190°..23′ East of Greenwich.

My Lunar Observations prove no material error in the Time Keeper, I therefore take it as exact, from whence Savage Island being only 47 miles from me at Noon, I hope to make it before night ensues.

The Booby I saw in the mornning is always a sign of land being not a great way off.

I have been obliged to lay aside the use of one of my Sextants that I have hitherto constantly made observations with under the name of Ramsdens C, owing to the Screw of the Index being unaccountably lost. One of my Compasses also under the Name B was also rendered useless by being Stolen by the Indians, and returned broke.

The Plants continue to thrive finely. They take about a half Hhd pr. Day to water them, which is done every evening.


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