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Revised Sep 1 2021

Bond's Providence Logbook Mar 4, 1792

Remarks &c towards Otaheite 4th March 1792

 1 pm: Fresh breezes and cloudy weather with haze & showers of rain. Set steering sails. Saw what the seamen call a Right Whale, and a Cape Hen which alighted on the mast head

 5 pm: People employed washing and mending their clothes

 7 pm: Hazy weather, saw some rock weed – Let in water and pumped it out as usual At 7 shortened sail – At 8 cloudy weather with thick Mist.

10 pm: Thick rainy weather

12 mid: Fresh breezes and thick squally weather

 1 am: In Top Gallant Sails & 2nd and 3rd reefs Fore Top Sail

 2 am: Squally weather

 5 am: Strong breezes and cloudy made more sail saw several Cape Hens

 7 am: Fresh breezes and cloudy made additional sail – set Fore & Fore Top Mast steering sails

 8 am: Served thick Portable Soup Gruel for Breakfast cleaned below and aired with fires. Served Wort & Krout as usual. Mustered in Divisions Shortened sail for the Assistant & performed Divine Service

11 am: Served Portable Soup & Bore Cole in the Pease for Dinner

12 noon: Fresh breezes and fair weather made sail. Assistant in company
   Latitude Observed 49°·25′ South


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