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Revised Sep 4 2021

Bond's Providence Logbook Feb 2, 1793

Remarks &c Saturday 2nd February 1793

 1 pm: Fresh gales and fair weather People washing and mending their Clothes. Sailmakers on the Quarter Deck Awning – In Top Gallant steering sails.

 5 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual.

 7 pm: Fresh gales and squally; in steering sails

 8 pm: Ditto Weather

 9 pm: In Top Gallant sails

11 pm: Squally – Dark to the Northward made ye the [sic] Assistant's Signal to go ahead and sound.

12 mid: Hard rain – up Fore sail – In 2nd & 3rd reefs Top Sails.

 3 am: Squally with rain

 5 am: Fresh gales with dard cloudy weather and much haze. Out 3rd reef and set Top Gallant sails.

 7 am: Served Portable Soup Gruel for breakfast. Saw a Man of War bird, other sea birds, and some flying-fish. At 8 Saw the Island of Hispaniola bearing NNW – Washed the Gun, Orlop, and Cockpit Decks; and aired with fires. Sailmakers about the Awning. Saw some Grampuses & Porpoises. Served Krout.

12 noon: At Noon fresh gales & fine weather with haze. Assistant in company. Hispaniola N19°W 5 leagues. Island of Beata N34°W to N43°W 4 leagues.
   Latitude Observed 17°·20′ North


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