Revised 2010-07-16
1 pm: Moderate breezes and cloudy weather all sail set.
3 pm: Exercised the Boats Crews at Small Arms – Shifted the Jib; bent ye old one. Sailmakers variously employed
6 pm: Squally in small sails &c – Shortened sail and in 1st & 2nd reefs Top Sails, with which we run all night
8 pm: Strong breezes and tolerable fine weather
12 mid: Assistant carrying a light and leading the way at the distance of about ½ a mile
4 am: Moderate and cloudy weather
6 am: Made all sail
8 am: Ditto Weather
9 am: Exercised Boats Crews at Small Arms – Unbent the old Mizen Top Sail
to mend & bent a new one – People breakfasted as is customary Served Krout in the Pease
to day instead of Borecole. – Memorandum: the usual custom is to serve 3 pounds of Portable Soup
every morning in the Gruel, for Breakfast – For Dinners Borecole in the Pease every Pease day,
also in the Gruel Soup on Mondays : On Banyan Days Portable Soup is also put in the Bore (5 pounds)
and likewise on Mondays as the Bore cole is – This is the first day of leaving off Borecole for Krout
Latitude Observed 14°:21′ South