Revised Sep 3 2021
1 pm: Fresh breezes and fair weather
2 pm: Cooper employed repairing Casks &c
4 pm: Saw Boobies and Flying-fish.
6 pm: Shortened sail, spoke ye Assistant, and in 1st reef Topsails
10 pm: Shortened sail to sound. made sail.
2 am: Exceeding fine weather and Moon light – Observed a sea like the making of a weather Tide or current
4 am: Fresh breezes and cloudy at 5 Hour.30 Minutes hove to
5 am: At 5 Hour.45 bore away and made all sail. Saw a flock of birds of the Gull kind, ang great numbers of Flying fish
8 am: Moderate breezes and fine weather saw Tropic birds Hazy Horizon. Served the usual Breakfast of Portable Soup Gruel – Cooper repairing Cables – Up all chests and Bags, and washed below. Sluiced the beams &c. well with water, which destroyed vast numbers of Cockroaches. – Carpenters employed chinsing the Cutter &c Sour Krout & Portable Soup in the Pease for Dinner.
12 noon:
Moderate breezes and fair weather with hazy Horizon.
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