Aug 4, 1792 Home Providence Log Aug 6, 1792
Revised Aug 26 2021
1 pm: Fresh Breezes and fair Weather. Sea from the Southward
2 pm: People Employed cleaning and mending Clothes.
5 pm: Clear Weather. Worked the Pumps as usual
7 pm: In 1st. Reefs. Spoke the Assistant and ordered Lieut. Portlock to lead for the Night
10 pm: Saw Porpoises
12 mid: Fine Night
5 am: Scrubbed the Peoples Clothes Bags
8 am: Served a Hot breakfast as usual. Aired Ship with Fires. Cleaned & Mustered the Ship's Company and performed Divine Service
11 am: Saw an Island from the Mast Head SWbW A
12 noon: Fine Weather. The Island S48°W 26 Miles from the Deck, &
other land from the Mast head WbS and WSW B
Assistant in Company
Served a Puncheon Spruce Beer, Bore Cole &c as usual on this day
My object was now to determine that Maurelle's Lands were not the Islands I discoverred in my last Voyage to the WNW of the Friendly Islands, and to determine more accurately their situation. At that time I could only determine their boundary to enable a Navigator to discover them again, and I now steered such a course as would satisfactoraly fix it beyond a doubt. At Noon I made the land, but it all at this moment appeared new to me, which may readily be conceived by those who have read my account with a proper attention. From the recollection I had of it however, the Island A appeared to me to be the land I had passed to the Southward of, altho it did not agree with my latitude by a few Miles, an error that may be easily accounted for.
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