

Nov 17, 1792 Home Bond's Log Nov 19, 1792
Revised 2010-07-21
1 pm: Light breezes and fine weather with a swell from the SW
3 pm: People employed Signal and mending their Clothes. Gunners blacking &c. the 2nd Deck Guns.
4 pm: Saw a Pintada bird, Albatrosses and some Sheerwaters.
6 pm: Moderate breezes and fine clear weather
8 pm: Some black clouds to the Southward & Eastward
10 pm: In 1st reef Mizen Top Sail
12 mid: Fresh breezes and cloudy weather the swell much abated
4 am: Ditto Weather
5 am: Set the starboard lower, & Main Top Mast steering sails &c. out reef Mizen Top Sail – Breakfasted the People on Portable Soup Gruel as usual.
7 am: Fresh gales and cloudy with very smooth water. Saw Sheerwaters, an Albacore and some Albatrosses – Set Main Top Gallant Steering Sails – Furled the Main Sail – Mustered in Divisions and performed Divine Service in the Cabin Served out Sour Krout as usual.
12 noon: Fresh gales and fair weather the Assistant rather dropping astern with all sails
set
Latitude Observed 31°:51′·06″ South
Nov 17, 1792 Home Bond's Log Nov 19, 1792