Revised Sep 2 2021
1 pm: Moderate and fair weather
4 pm: Assistant ahead, leading round the North reef which was barely discernable from ye Mast head
6 pm: At 6 the reef seen from ye Top Gallant Mast Head, bore South about 8 miles – Spoke the Assistant and hauled our wind on the Starboard Tack.
10 pm: Made ye Signal and Tacked – Exceeding fine weather and Moon light – few Noddies about the ship.
12 mid: Tacked per signal.
2 am: Tacked per signal.
4 am: Saw Breakers bearing South distant 2 miles. Tacked ship
6 am: At 6 bore up the Assistant leading – Breakers from the Mast Head, South 7 or 8 miles
8 am: Fresh breezes and fair weather Breakers just in sight aloft from SbE to SEbS – Served thick Gruel, Bore Cole
10 am: Mustered in Divisions and performed Divine Service to the Watch below, in the Cabbin. – Served Krout, and also Krout in the Pease for Dinner
11 am: At ¾ past 11 The Assistant made ye Signal for Seeing Breakers and to sail between the [?] – Saw Breakers bearing from NbW to WbN distant about 4 or 5 miles. – In 2nd reef Top Sails and shortened for the Assistant to come up – Passed an old tree covered with Barnacles.
12 noon: Fresh breezes and fair weather with haze
Latitude Observed 9°:26′ South