Revised Sep 4 2021
1 pm: Moderate breezes and cloudy weather
3 pm: Light airs
5 pm: Worked the Pumps – Saw Porpoises
8 pm: Ditto Weather
9 pm: In royals & Lower steering sail – Lightning in the NE quarter
12 mid: Moderate breezes and fair weather
4 am: Cloudy
5 am: Set steering sails &c. Fine weather – saw 2 fish by the seamen called Yellow tails (of the Dolphin species) Out 1st reef Top Sails.
7 am: Served thick Portable Soup Gruel for breakfast. Clean dryed below and aird with fires. Exercised great Guns & small Arms. Made ye signal, and spoke the Ast – found all well on board. Portable soup in the Pease for dinner – Served Krout. Saw flying-fish. Broached a puncheon of Spruce Beer
12 noon: Moderate and fair weather
Latitude Observed 3°·05′ North.