Revised Sep 16 2021
1 pm: Light Breezes and fair Weather Spoke the Assistant per Signal – Hoisted out the Whale boat and sent her on board her for Lieutenant Portlock – Fitted and set the Driver and Spritsail top
5 pm: Lieutenant Portlock returned in the Whale boat – Hoisted her in
8 pm: Light Airs and fair Weather carrying all Sail
9 pm: A heavy dew falling
12 mid: Ditto Weather the Magellan Clouds[*] distinctly seen
2 am: A bright Meteor fell in the SE
4 am: Ditto Weather
5 am: Saw a Tropic Bird
6 am: Washed the Decks as usual
8 am: Light Breezes and fine Weather
9 am: Cleared between Decks and washed below fore and aft – destroyed many Cockroaches – Fires in the Cockpit stoves
11 am: Saw some Porpoises and passed great Quantities of Spawn – Served fresh Beef – Sailmakers employed upon the Main Deck Awning
12 noon: At Noon Light Breezes and fine Weather the Swell from the SW continues –
The Assistant ahead leading
[* The Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies visible in the southern hemisphere,
which are members of our Local Group and are orbiting our Milky Way galaxy.
-- Wikipedia]