Revised Aug 25 2021
1 pm: Fresh Gale – Shortned Sail, hove to and sounded with 185 fathoms of line out, but got no ground.—
4 pm: Out 2nd Reefs
8 pm: Much Swell from the SW
10 pm: A very confused Sea – Hove too and tryed Soundings with 120 fathoms line but got no Ground —
2 am: Light Winds and very confused Sea —
4 am: Saw a Ship ESE
8 am: Set Fore Top Mast and Lower Studding Sails
9 am: Cleaned below – Some Albetrosses and Sheerwaters
10 am: Unbent the Cables
12 noon: Fresh Breezes and fair Weather a great Swell from the Westward – Assistant in Company and a Strange Ship NE 3 Leagues —