Bounty Logbook Remarks with Google map, Sep. 22, 1788

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Bounty Logbook Remarks, Sep. 22, 1788

Sunday, Sep. 21, 1788

1:00 pm Wet Foggy and sometimes thick Rain with Intervals of Fair Weather which enabled me to get Double Altitudes as follows.


Time Keeper Apparent time    Alt. Center
13hr23′20″                   36°53′
14hr31′32″  2hr52′09″        29°07′

4:00 pm Cloudy, Tacked.

5:00 pm Foggy.
Saw a Seal. Clewed all Sails up. Many Albatrosses about particularly the Black Grey called Old Curates. Sounded 230 fathoms Line no Ground.

Monday, Sep. 22, 1788

12:00 am Cloudy Weather.

2:00 am Wet Foggy Weather.

5:00 am Moderate & Cloudy.

7:00 am Saw Rock Weed.

8:00 am Served Portable Soup Gruel as usual.

9:00 am Employed making Points. Cleaning and Airing below and Sailmakers repairing Main Top Mast Staysail.

12:00 pm Fair Weather & Moderate Breezes. Swell from the NE considerably more than I have found it since I came round ye South of New Zeland. Under all Sails. No Birds.