Nov 19, 1792 Home Flinders's Log Nov 21, 1792
Revised Sep 16 2021
1 pm: Moderate Breezes & Cloudy Weather with much Haze – Saw Sheerwaters and Albatrosses
4 pm: In Studding sails
5 pm: Saw Pintada Birds and a Swallow
6 pm: Tacked Ship and single reefed the Topsails
8 pm: Dark cloudy Weather
10 pm: Light Breezes & Clear Weather Lightning from the Eastward
12 mid: Lightning all round
1 am: Fresh Breezes – In Top Gallant sails
2 am: Clear Weather
4 am: Day break – Set Top Gallant sails – Assistant ahead
8 am: Moderate Breezes and hazey Weather
9 am: Saw flying Fish – Took in the Top Gallant sails Washed & cleaned below fore and aft – People working up Junk and other necessary Duty – Saw Albatrosses, & Sheerwaters
11 am: Fresh Breezes – Tacked Ship and 2nd reefed the Main Topsail
12 noon: At Noon – Fresh Breezes & Cloudy Weather some Haze about the Horizon and
the Sun only out at Intervals
Assistant in Company.
On entering a new Log book, I cannot but reflect on the pleasing Prospect we have of bringing the Voyage to a happy Conclusion. a Voyage, the Intention of which will ever redound Honour to the benevolent Promoters of it and to the English Nation, who so generously put it in Execution. The Discoveries we have made and Dangers we have passed tho' perhaps not of the greatest Consequence to us as a trading Nation, will yet add to our well established Name as Discoverers, increase Geographical Knowledge in general and to the Cause of Navigation they will be an Acquisition
Captain Bligh, as the immediate Agent, will no Doubt receive the Honour and recompence equal to the Task
he has performed and I as an Actor tho' in an inferior Station, shall have the Satisfaction, of having
served my King in a Cause he has so much at Heart, my Country by assisting to put in Execution its
benevolent Intentions and myself by gaining some Knowledge of Navigation, the universal Diffusion of
which is one of our best National Characteristics.
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