Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Moderate breeze and fine clear weather – at 1 Hoisted out the whale boat and sent her for Lieutenant Portlock – Saw a sail standing in for the Land – at 4 Extremes of the Island Hispaniola in sight N23°W to N64°E off shore 8 or 9 Leagues
7 pm: Worked the Pumps – at Sun set the western point of Hispaniola bore N17°W – Eastern Land in sight, NEbE off shore 8 or 9 Leagues – at 7 Lieutenant Portlock returned to the Assistant – In Boat
12 mid: Light breeze and fine weather
3 am: at ½ past 3 Shifted the steering Sails to the Starboard Side
5 am: Moderate breeze and fair weather – at day light Saw Land bearing ENE
8 or 9 Leagues distant – Passed an English brig sloop of war on a wind – a strange
Sail in the SW – Served thick portable Soup gruel for Breakfast, at 8 a Fresh Gale –
Washed the Gun, Orlop and Cockpit decks – Aired ship with fires – Sailmaker on the
Quarter Deck awning – Served Bore cole & Portable Soup thickened with oatmeal for Dinner –
at 11..30 Saw the Island Jamaica from the Top mast head – at Noon a fresh breeze & fair
weather with haze – Jamaica from the Deck bearing West
Latitude Observed 17°..59′21″ North