Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Fresh breezes and fine clear weather
3 pm: Sailmakers on old Sails – Gunners painting gun carriages – Tarred the whale boat
6 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual
8 pm: Cloudy weather
4 am: Served thick portable Soup gruel for breakfast – Cleaned below and aired with fires – Sailmakers Gunners and carpenters as before – Seamen scraping the Masts bowsprit &c – and painting the lower Masts – greased the Top, & Top gallant Masts, topsail sheets &c
12 noon: At Noon moderate breezes and cloudy, broached a Puncheon of Spruce beer
Latitude Observed 17°..39′ South