Revised Aug 26 2021
1 pm: Moderate Breezes and fine Weather. Three Tropic Birds about, and a small Bird that flies like a Plover Same as on 31st. last —
7 pm: In Steering Sails and first Reefs. Set Fore Top Mast Steering Sail.
4 am: Wind seldom Steady to 3 or 4 Points
6 am: Made all Sail
8 am: Served thick Portable Soup Gruel for Breakfast – Sour Krout – Vinegar – Sweet Wort – Bore Cole thickned with Oatmeal & Portable Soup for dinner.
10 am: Washed below and Dried with Fires and prepared the Galley for Washing with boiling Water to kill Cockroaches and Vermin.—
11 am: Exercised the marines & fired – Painted Boats bottoms
12 noon: Fine Weather. Swell from the SW —