Revised Jun 8 2021
1:00 pm Fair Weather and for the first time since I left the Cape I got some distances of the Sun & Moon but could get no Variations.
4:00 pm Employed washing Hammocks & Bags
8:00 pm Very fresh Gale and Squally. In Steering Sails
12:00 am Sea covered with luminous spots.
2:00 am Wind suddenly shifted and the Air much colder.
4:00 am Very Squally and Lightning. In Double Reefs
6:00 am Hail and sleet
8:00 am Served Portable Soup Gruel as usual for breakfast
10:00 am Fair Intervals cleaned & dryed below with Fires. Sailmalers about the Foresails hands making Cable Platts
12:00 pm Squally with Fair Intervals. Kept a point more to the Southward, and out Reefs. set the Fore Topmast Steering Sail. A few small Albatrosses, Blue Peterels and Sheerwaters.