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Revised Sep 3 2021

Bond's Providence Logbook Dec 1, 1792

Remarks &c Saturday 1st December 1792

 1 pm: Fresh breezes and fair weather Up Top Gallant Yards out 2nd reef Mizen Top Sail and set Top Gallant Sails

 5 pm: Worked the Pumps.

 6 pm: Cloudy – Saw Albatrosses, Sheerwaters, and a Cape Hen. In Top Gallant Sails.

 8 pm: Fresh breezes and fair weather with a chopping sea

10 pm: Set Top Gallant Sails.

12 mid: Hauled up the Courses to prevent wearing them out – Light airs

 3 am: Cloudy, with a Dew falling

 4 am: Fine clear weather saw a shark and 3 Devil fish with many Blubber and coloured Paticles of Blue & Green (gelatinous substances).

 6 am: Employed all the morning in filling and stocking down salt water into the Fore Hold. Served the usual Breakfast – with Sour Krout at the rate of ½ a pint each man as customary – Sailmakers repairing the Top Gallant Sails as before

11 am: Light airs, made all sail – Made the Dinner Signal to the Brig

12 noon: Light breezes and fine weather Assistant in company – The Plants in good order.
 The usual Current of about 35 or 50 miles per Diem
   Latitude Observed 36°·55′ South


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