Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: A Fresh Gale and thick cloudy weather
4 pm: Dark cloudy weather – threatning wind & Rain
5 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual
7 pm: In steering, Top Gallant Sails, and 2d Reefs – Thick weather with light showers of Rain – in 3d Reefs Fore & Main Topsail
12 mid: Squally with small Rain at times
4 am: At 4 fresh Gales and dark cloudy weather – at day light out 3d Reefs and set
Top Gallant Sails – Saw brown & Gannet Boobies, Flying fish, Sheerwaters, a small kind of white
gull, & a man of War bird – at 6 out 2d Reef and set Fore Top Mast Steering Sail – at 8 Served
the usual Breakfast – A Spar with barnacles on it passed by – Unbent the Cables & stowed
the Anchors – Sailmakers repairing the best Main Top Sail – Carpenters in her waterways on the
Main deck – served the weekly allowance of Vinegar – and Portable Soup thickened with oatmeal in
the [unfinished]
– Swell as yesterday –
Borecole Soup for dinner – At Noon fresh Gales and gloomy weather