Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh Breezes and cloudy with haze, a long swell from the Westward
4 pm: Hazy
6 pm: A Fresh Breeze and fine weather – hazy on the Horizon – Some Rock weed was seen – In 1st Reefs of the Topsails; let fresh water in and pumped it out again
10 pm: Fair weather – a heavy dew falling
12 mid: AM Very heavy dew
3 am: Made and shortened Sail occasionally for the Assistant
6 am: Served Thick Gruel and Portable Soup for Breakfast
8 am: Fresh Breezes and cloudy weather – Washed the Gun, Orlop, and Cockpit Decks & aired the Ship with fires
10 am: Served Vinegar, Gruel, Sweet wort, Boar Cole, & portable Soup as usual
12 noon: Fresh Breeze and fine weather with haze – Saw some porpoises, a vast number
of Silver Birds, some Albatrosses, Mother Careys Chickens, and Sheerwaters of Different kinds
Latitude Observed 43..50 South