Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh Trade and fair weather – Bent the Bower Cables – Armourer at the forge
4 pm: The Ships Company were examined by the Surgeon for the Venereal Disease
5 pm: Took an Account of the peoples cloaths
6 pm: at 6 fair and hazy – worked the pumps
7 pm: at 7 a Shower of Rain – at 8 fresh breeze and fair weather
3 am:
Maitea W½S 5 or 6 Leagues distant
4 am: Fine weather – Saw a Man of War Bird a flying fish and a Tropic Bird
6 am: Served thick portable Soup Gruel for Breakfast – Cleaned below and aired
with the Stoves – Mustered the Ships Company in Divisions – Read a set of Orders to the
Ships Company for the Establishment of an amicable intercourse with the Natives of the South Sea
Islands – at 10 Saw the Island of Maitea bearing West distant 10 or 11 Leagues made the Signal
for Seeing Land, answered by the Assistant Served Krout and wort – Captain Bligh read
prayers to the People – at Noon a fresh Trade and fair weather with haze on the Horizon –
Maitea W¼Squall about 7 Leagues Distant Assistant in Company
Latitude Observed 17°..55′ South