Revised Sep 4 2021
1 pm: Fresh breezes and fine clear weather
3 pm: Sailmakers employed on old sails; Gunners painting gun carriages
5 pm: Tarred the whale boat.
6 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual.
8 pm: Cloudy weather
7 am: Served thick Portable Soup Gruel for breakfast. Cleaned below and aired with fires. Sailmakers, Gunners and Carpenters employed as before; Seamen scraping the Masts bowsprit &c, and painting the lower Masts. Greased the top & top gallant masts, topsail sheets, tyes &c.
12 noon: Moderate breezes and cloudy weather broached a puncheon of spruce beer – Assistant in company
Latitude Observed 17°·39′ South