1 pm: Moderate and cloudy weather

 3 pm: Hauled down the steering sails.

 6 pm: Squally with rain – a strange sail in the West quarter

 8 pm: In 1st reef Top Sails.

 9 pm: Hard rain, and dark squally weather with lightning. Kept a fire in ye Galley all night. At 10 fresh breezes with constant rain, in Top Gallant sails and 2nd. reef Top Sails.

 3 am: Fresh breezes and dark cloudy weather

 6 am: Out 2nd. reef Main Top Sail and set Top Gallant sails.

 7 am: Squally with rain in Top Gallant sails and clewed down the Top Sails – Made sail – Saw 2 sea birds of the Gull kind. Cleaned below and kept fires in the Cockpits in Brodies stoves.

10 am: Served Vinegar to the Ships Company. Saw several Bonettas and a Portugueze Man of War (Nautilus). Got up all wet Clothes to dry.

12 noon: Fresh breezes and cloudy – the Assistant in company
   Latitude Observed: (indifferent)