Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Strong gale and cloudy weather – In Lower steering Sail
4 pm: Sailmaker repairing the Fore Top Gallant Sail & lower steering Sail – passed thro' a very strong rippling – worked the pumps as usual – spoke the Assistant per Signal
9 pm: In Fore Top Mast steering Sail & Top Gallant Sail
10 pm: Saw a Mother carys chicken – at 8 set the Main Top Gallant Sail
12 mid: Fair weather
4 am: Fresh gale and hazy
5 am: Set the Fore Top Gallant Sail – Served thick portable soup gruel for Breakfast. Saw Albacores and flying fish – Ditto Weather – up all Chests and Bags and washed the Gun, Orlop and cockpit decks – Aired Ship with fires. at 9 out 2d Reef Fore & Main Topsail, & set the Fore Top Mast steering Sail – Served Krout Sailmakers repairing the steering Sails
12 noon: Fresh breezes and fine weather – Assistant in Company – Broached a Puncheon of
Spruce
Latitude Observed 9°..34′ North