Revised Aug 30 2021
1 pm: Fresh gales and fine clear weather.
4 pm: In 3rd. reef Fore and 2nd reef Main and Mizen Topsails
5 pm: Fresh gale and fine clear weather handed the Mainsail. Saw a number of Pintada birds and some Albatrosses.
9 pm: Ditto Weather a fire in the galley all night.
11 pm: A luminous appearance in the sea. Made the Assistant's signal to shorten sail
At ½ past 11 in 4th. reef Fore & Main Top Sails.
1 am: Hard gales with squalls at times. Down Top Gallant Yards and furled the Top Sails.
3 am: Set close reefed Main Top Sail.
4 am: Set ye Fore Top Sail.
6 am: Secured the Booms with preventer Lashings
8 am: Cleaned below and aired with fires
10 am: Moderate and fine weather made the Assistant's signal to make more sail – Set Main Sail, Jib and Mizen Top Sail.
11 am: At 11 made more sail.
12 noon: Moderate and clear with a swell from the westward
Latitude Observed 31°:29′ South