Apr. 16, 1789
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Apr. 18, 1789
Revised May 22 2021
1:00 pm Fair Weather and Hazy.
3:00 pm Employed mending Hammocks. Cleaning below and Exercising at Small Arms.
6:00 pm In 1st Reefs and Steering Sails.
11:00 pm Light Squalls of Rain.
4:00 am Fair Weather.
5:00 am Out Reefs and set Steering Sails.
8:00 am Fine Weather.
9:00 am Served fresh Pork, Plantains & Tarro to the People.
10:00 am A Brown Booby and Several Tropic Birds seen.
12:00 pm Ditto Weather. Sick List One Venereal, one recovering from a Flux, and an Invalid from a fall off Cape Horn.
Remarks: Savage Island by Time Keeper N79°W 47 Miles.
My discovering of the Island of Whytootackee made me lay aside an inclination I had of seeing Palmerstons Islands, as by that means I should follow more directly a new track towards Savage Island, which I intend to make from no other motive than to compare the situation I may find it in with that established by Captain Cook, with which I agreed in our Voyage in 1777, making it to lie in 19°01′S Latitude and 190°23′ East of Greenwich.
My Lunar Observations prove no material error in the Time Keeper, I therefore take it as exact, from whence Savage Island being only 47 miles from me at Noon, I hope to make it before night ensues.
The Booby I saw in the mornning is always a sign of land being not a great way off.
I have been obliged to lay aside the use of one of my Sextants that I have hitherto constantly made observations with under the name of Ramsdens C, owing to the Screw of the Index being unaccountably lost. One of my Compasses also under the Name B was also rendered useless by being Stolen by the Indians, and returned broke.
The Plants continue to thrive finely. They take about a half Hogshead per Day to water them, which is done every evening.
Apr. 16, 1789
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