Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh Trade and fair weather with haze
3 pm: Saw a Mother Careys Chicken several flying fish – Armouter working at the Forge – Marines firing at a Target – People mending Cloaths
7 pm: Worked the pumps as usual – In Steering Sails and 1st Reefs Topsails
10 pm: Cloudy in 2d Reef Fore Top Sail
4 am: Moderate and fine weather
5 am: Out Reefs and set Steering Sails – The same breakfast as yesterday
8 am: Fresh breezes and cloudy – cleaned below
9 am: Exercised Marines and Boats Crews firing with Small Arms – Krout & wort
as usual
Cleaned below
Broached a puncheon of Spruce Beer
Armouret at the Forge – Saw Two Tropic Birds a Sheerwater and a Mother Careys Chicken At Noon
fresh Breezes and fair weather – Assistant in Company
Latitude Observed 18°..58′ South