Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh Breezes and fair weather
2 pm: Cooper employed repairing casks
4 pm: Saw Boobies and flying fish
7 pm: Shortened Sail – Spoke the Assistant & in 1st Reefs – Sounded 40 fathoms fine sand – altered our course
10 pm: Shortened Sail to sound
11 pm: Kept the lead going all night
2 am: Exceeding fine weather & moon light
5 am: Fresh breezes and cloudy at 5..45 bore away and made all Sail The Assistant leading
7 am: Saw a flock of the Gull kind – great numbers of flying fish
8 am: Moderate breezes and fine weather – Hazy horizon – Saw Tropic Birds – served the usual breakfast of Portable Soup gruel – Cooper repairing Casks
10 am: Up all Chests and bags and washed below – sluiced the Beams &c with water which destroyed many cockroaches – Carpenters employed chinsing the Cutter &c – Served Krout & Portable Soup in the Pease for dinner
12 noon: At Noon moderate & fair weather with hazy horizon
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