Revised 2010-07-12
1 pm: Fresh breezes and thick squally weather with rain and a great Head-Sea – Assistant came about under our bows (amid some confusion)
3 pm: Cloudy in 3rd reef Fore Top Sail
4 pm: Fresh gales and squally – Close reefed Main Top Sail and handed the Fore & Mizen – Down Fore Top Gallant Yards
7 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual and kept Fires in all night
8 pm: Fresh gales and cloudy weather
10 pm: Frequent flashes of Lightning from the North & NW
12 mid: Fresh breezes and fair weather – The head sea too great to allow any more sail to be made
3 am: At 3 much Lightning from the NE
5 am: Made sail – A Swell still from the SW
8 am: Light breezes and cloudy – The usual breakfast served of Portable Soup Gruel – Exercised the Seamen at Great Guns & the Marines with blank cartridges at Small Arms – Served Wort and Sour Krout. Carpenters employed caulking the Launch &c and Sailmakers repairing sails. Got up the Quarter Deck Awning
12 noon: Ditto Weather – the Assistant in company Broached Spruce Beer for the people –
People also employed working up Junk.
Latitude Observed 34°:31′ South