Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh Breezes and fair weather
3 pm: Made and shortened Sail occasionally for the Assistant
6 pm: Fresh Breezes and cloudy weather – Saw great number of Silver Birds and sone Rock weed
12 mid: Cloudy weather – a heavy dew falling
5 am: Fresh Breezes and cloudy
7 am: Fresh Gales with haze, served Gruel and Portable Soup for Breakfast
9 am: Saw several Black fish (so called by Seamen)
10 am: Cleaned below fore and aft, Bent the Bower Cables
11 am: In Top Gallant Sails & 2d Reefs Fore Top Sail, The Assistant not being able to keep way with us
12 noon: Fresh Gale & Cloudy with much haze, Saw a number of the same kind of Birds
as yesterday
Latitude Observed 43°..46′ South