Revised Jun 10 2021
1:00 pm Fresh Breezes and cloudy. This afternoon got our cloaths tolerably dry
6:00 pm Served 1/24 of a pound of Bread and a Jill of water for Supper to each person
8:00 pm Wind freshening and Shipping water so that we are all wet again.
12:00 am Cold and wet.
6:00 am Saw Islands. O from SWBS
8 leagues a P
NWBW¾W
6 leagues Q the
largest with two remarkable Hills WBS¾S
7 leagues
and a Smaller Island with a high Sugar Loaf Peak W¾S
4 or 5 leagues.
Served 1/24 pound of Bread and a
Jill of water for Breakfast.
12:00 pm Open Cloudy Weather. The Sugar Loaf Peak and Island
P in one at S½E distant from Island P
4 leagues. Island Q
SSW½W. We now discovered a rocky Key NWBN
4 leagues and another
Island R West about
8 leagues the whole being
Six in number. Land fertile and woody. Island O not in sight. Steered for Island
R.
Served 1/24 pound of Bread and a
Jill of water for Dinner.
Constantly shipping water and very wet suffering much cold and shivering in the night. Served the usual allowance of 1/24 pound Bread and a Jill of water three times a day.
At 6 In the Morning I discovered Islands from SWBS 8 leagues to NWBW¾ 6 leagues which I soon after found to be four all of them high and remarkable. At Noon I discovered a Rocky Key NWBN 4 leagues and another Island West 8 leagues so that the whole were 6 in Number, the four I had first seen bearing from S½E to SWBS distant 3 leagues from the nearest Island.