Revised Sep 17 2021
1 pm: Fresh Gale & fine Weather – Many Porpoises about the Ship.
2 pm: Saw Sea fowl and some Portuguese Men of War
4 pm: Ditto Weather People scraping the Upper Decks.
5 pm: Pumps worked as usual to ventilate the Ship below.
8 pm: Fair Weather Set the Larboard Studding sails.
9 pm: A heavy Dew falling.
11 pm: Saw a Meteor in the SE.
12 mid: Cloudy Weather A Hand at the Starboard Cat head looking out.
4 am: Fine clear Weather
5 am: All Sail set.
8 am: Fresh Breezes & fine Weather Carpenters caulking the Quarter Deck and painting. People scraping the Main Deck. A Cask of Spruce Beer broached for the People.
12 noon: At Noon Fresh Breezes and fair Weather thick Haze about the Horizon.
Assistant in Company.