Revised Sep 1 2021
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