Apr. 17, 1788
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Apr. 19, 1788
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1:00 pm A Very hard Gale of Wind with severe Squalls of Snow & Hail.
10:00 pm The Wind suddenly shifting made me doubt about standing on to the Eastward. I therefore brought too on the larboard Tack under a Close Reefed Main Topsail.
4:00 am Blowing very hard with Snow & Hail.
7:00 am The Gale Moderating made Sail.
8:00 am Moderate Breezes & thick Snow.
Employed Cleaning & drying below.
12:00 pm Light Winds & thick Snow, a very confused Sea. Wore Ship. Besides the Gunner I now have two Men laid up for the first time with Colds. Under Double Reefed Topsails & Courses.
Remarks at Noon: Longitude from Cape St. John by Time Keeper 7°41′W.
At 10 O'Clock this night the Wind shifted suddenly to the South and blew very hard, the Clouds came from the S.E. which gave us hopes of the Wind coming from that quarter, the Gale rather encreased and I therefore lay too under a Close Reefed Main Topsail, the Sea being so very high that It becalmed the Lower Sails.
In the Morning the Sea became exceedingly confused and but little Wind every thing seemed to foretell a Shift. The Snow fell thick and the Air very cold.
We could make no more Sail at Noon altho moderate Weather, for the motion of the ship is too much to bear the Topsails hoisted up without tearing every thing to peices. My Gunners and two Men are now confined with heavy colds and Rheumatic Complaints.
I now began to give my Men and Officers a Pint of the Decoction of Ground Malt once a day and shall continue it while in bad Weather and untill I see a likelyhood of fresh supplies. Proportion four to One.
The Thermometer is kept in a safe on the Top of the Capstan which I find makes a difference of 2 Degrees to what it is when exposed to the open Air this may be always allowed for as the height is taken in that place. As I have only One on board, & having had one broke already by exposing it, I dare not trust this One out in the way of the Ropes.
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