Revised Aug 27 2021
1 pm: Fresh Gale and fine Weather with haze.
3 pm: Employed mending Clothes. Sailmakers making an Awning for the Quarter Deck.
6 pm: Let fresh Water into the Ship and Worked the Pumps.
10 pm: Very Squally Weather and some Rain. The Assistant spreading too much from us, I made the Signal to keep a head and Sound. I altered my Course to make the Island Altavella.
12 mid: In Double Reefs.
2 am: In 3rd Reefs.
5 am: Out 3rd Reefs. Saw a Man of War Bird and Sea Fowl Flying Fish Grampuses and Porpoises.
7 am: Served Hot breakfast as usual and Sour Krout.
8 am: Saw Hispaniola in the NNW. Very Hazy. Washed below and Aired with Fires. Sailmakers about the Awnings.
12 noon: Fine Weather and Hazy with a Strong Trade. The Island Altavella N67°W distant
5 Leagues. Island Beata N34°W to N43°W 4 Leagues and the South part of Hispaniola N19°W
about 4 leagues other parts indistinct.
Assistant in Company.