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Revised 2010-07-11

Bond's Providence Logbook Mar 24, 1792

Remarks &c towards Otaheite 24th March 1792

 1 pm: Moderate and fair weather – Sailmakers employed mending the Pinnace's Covering, and the men mending their Cloaths

 6 pm: In studding sails and 1st reef Topsails – set Fore Top Mast studding sail – Worked the Pumps as usual.

 9 pm: Moderate breezes and and [sic] cloudy. A fire kept in all night in the Galley

12 mid: Fresh breezes and fine weather – Saw some Blubber as we had done for two or three nights since

 2 am: At 2 squally with rain – at 3 fair weather.

 6 am: Out reefs and made all sail

 8 am: Thick Portable Soup Gruel for breakfast & Sour Krout and Sweet Wort as usual – Saw a flock of Sheerwaters following some Skip Jacks – Dry cleaned below with fires. Exercised the Pinnace men at Small Arms and the Marines at Platoon firing – People working up Junk, and Cooper mending Buckets

12 noon: Moderate & fair with a SW swell – Assistant in Company
   Latitude Observed 36°:42′ South


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