Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh breezes and fair weather – exercised the Marines with small Arms
4 pm: Ditto Weather People employed fitting new Buoy ropes Saw a flock of Birds among them Men of War, Boobies and a small kind of brown sheerwater
6 pm: Worked the Pumps – at ½ past 6 made the Assistants Signal to come within hail – spoke her and found all well on board
7 pm: at 7 In steering Sails and 2d Reefs Top Sails
12 mid: Ditto Weather The Assistant leading a head with a light
4 am: Dark flying clouds with light squalls of wind
5 am: Out Reefs and made all Sail
6 am: Saw Men of War and tropic birds
7 am: Served thick portable soup gruel for breakfast – at 8 a strong breeze and fair weather
washed the Gun, Orlop, and Cockpit decks – destroyed numbers of Cockroaches
These vermin have increased so as to be very troublesome in the Ship
11 am: Unbent the old and bent the new Main Top Sail People washing and mending cloaths
12 noon: At Noon a fresh breeze and fair weather Served sour Krout
Latitude Observed 13°..19′ South