Revised Sep 1 2021
1 pm: Moderate breezes and hazy weather
5 pm: Moderate and cloudy, saw several Blue Petterals and Albatrosses – A great swell from the westward.
8 pm: Squally with rain in Top Gallant & Main Top Mast Steering Sails
12 mid: Fair weather
1 am: Fresh breezes and thick dark cloudy weather with rain – At 2 Strong gales in 2nd reef Top Sails.
4 am: Strong gales with squalls, in 3rd reef Fore Top Sail
5 am: In 3 reef Main, and handed Mizen Topsail.
8 am: Close reefed the Top Sails and down Top Gallant Yards Shipped a Sea and stove in the larboard Quarter Gallery window – Cleaned below, and got up all wet cloaths to dry
11 am: Saw Albatrosses, Petterals, & Carey's Chickens.
12 noon: Strong gales & fair – Assistant in Company
Latitude Observed 37°:52′ South