Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Moderate breeze and fine weather
2 pm: Carpenters employed making alterations in the plant house – Sailmakers repairing the Fore Top Mast Staysail – Saw Porpoises
4 pm: Worked the pumps as usual
7 pm: In Royals and Top Gallant Steering Sails – Spoke the Assistant – Fresh breeze & fair weather
10 pm: Hauled down the steering Sails & in 1st Reefs
12 mid: Cloudy
5 am: Out Reefs and set Steering Sails – a Cross Sea from the Southward – Served thick portable Soup gruel for breakfast – at 8 a moderate breeze & fair weather – cleaned below and aired with fires – Served Krout as usual, & portable soup in the Pease for dinner
10 am: People working up Junk – Carpenters making alterations in the plant house – Cooper
making Tubs for Plants – Moderate breeze & fair weather
Latitude Observed 11°..32′ South