Revised Sep 16 2021
1 pm: Fresh Gale & Cloudy Weather
2 pm: Saw a Flock of Men of War Birds and Sheerwaters
4 pm: Ditto Weather
5 pm: Dark Cloudy Weather Before Dark – In studding sails and 1st reefs. The Strop of the Fore Topsail Tye block gave way – fitted another and set the Sail – Saw Porpoises & a large Shark
8 pm: Cloudy Weather
9 pm: A luminous Sparkling about the Ship and the Water covered with white Foam in Spots
12 mid: Strong Gale and Cloudy Weather Assistant ahead carrying a Light
4 am: Fresh Gale and fair Weather At Daybreak set the Lower & Fore topmast studding sails – Swell come round to the SE with some Sea
8 am: Cloudy Weather Cleared between Decks and washed below fore and aft destroyed great Quantities of Cockroaches, which are not quite so numerous as they were
11 am: A threatning Squall – Took in the studding sails and Double reefed the Topsails – Carpenters and Sailmakers employed about the Green house
12 noon: At Noon Fresh Gale and fair Weather Assistant in Company ahead