Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Moderate breeze and fine weather – Saw Boobies Noddies and tropic birds
3 pm: Water remarkably smooth
4 pm: Saw a Carys Chicken – and flying fish
5 pm: worked the Pumps
7 pm: In steering Sails &c – and 2d Reefs Top Sails
8 pm: Spoke the Assistant all well
12 mid: Two Noddies were taken
1 am: Under an easy sail the Assistant leading a head with a light
3 am: Saw Porpoises and Noddies
5 am: At 5 moderate breeze and fine weather with a thick haze on the horizon – Out Reefs & set Steering Sails – Saw tropic birds on the water and a Boobie – Served the usual breakfast – Saw two Gulls and a Carys Chicken
9 am: Portable Soup and sour Krout in the Pease for dinner
12 noon: At Noon moderate breeze and fine weather with haze on the horizon – Saw large
flocks of the black kind of Gulls several patches of Rock weed, and numbers of Bonettas and flying fish –
Saw Noddies
Latitude Observed 9°..27′ South