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Revised Aug 27 2021

Providence Logbook Oct 21, 1792

Remarks Sunday 21st October 1792

 1 pm: Fresh Gales and open Cloudy Weather with Haze.

 2 pm: Out 2d Reefs and set Steering Sails.

 3 pm: Broached a Cask of Pork No. 6 Contents 110 Double pieces.

 4 pm: People Employed Washing and Mending their Clothes.

 5 pm: Sheerwaters and Flying Fish

 6 pm: Cloudy Weather

 7 pm: In Studding Sails.

 5 am: Very Cloudy and a thick Hazy Horizon like a Mist. Set Fore Top Mast and lower Steering Sails.

 7 am: Squally. Served Hot Breakfast as usual and Portable Soup in the Pease for Dinner.

 9 am: Cleaned and Aired below, and Mustered the Ships Company & Performed Divine Service.

11 am: Saw Boobies, Men of War Birds and Flying Fish.

12 noon: Fresh Gales and Cloudy with bright intervals and a thick hazy Horizon. Sea from the South Easterly.
   Assistant in Company


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