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Revised Aug 26 2021
Light Winds at East and Calms. Thermometer from 79 to 81 Degrees. On Shore 83 Degrees at Noon in the Shade.
Very Sufficient supplies.
Employed Cutting Wood, making Canvass coverings for the Greenhouses on the Quarter Deck, Painting the Ship's Stern & Head, Armourer at the Forge.
Our old Friend Hammennemanne returned from his Tour round the Island. Otoo the young King with his Grand Father Otow will still be absent for some time. It appears that the purport of this old Man's journey is to collect Cloth, Hogs, and whatever he thinks will sell to the people of the Ships, and to make Friends of all his Chiefs before I Sail.
The Plants are doing exceedingly well, which is a peculiar happyness to me, as my time of Sailing draws so near it make[s] their well doing anxiously interesting to me. This with various other things respecting our future welfare; (Astronomical and Nautical Observations,) keep me laboriously employed, and labouring under a constant Nervous Head Ach which sometimes distracts me.
Our Sick List consists of 22 Venereals.
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