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Revised 2010-11-05

Tobin's Providence Logbook Aug 5, 1792

H M Ship Providence from Matavai Bay Otaheite [towards Timor in the East Indies – 1792]

Sunday August 5th

 1 pm: Fresh Breezes and fair weather – Sea from the Southward

 2 pm: People employed washing and mending cloaths – Sailmaker repairing the boats Sails

 5 pm: Worked the pumps

 6 pm: In steering sails and 1st Reefs Top Sails

 7 pm: Spoke the Assistant, all well on board

 8 pm: Pleasant breeze and fine weather

 9 pm: Saw porpoises

10 pm: Gunner employed in the Magazine

12 mid: The same weather

 2 am:Mountainous Island
Mountainous Island seen August 3d - SW¼S 6 or 7 Leagues

 4 am: Fresh breeze and clear weather

 5 am: Out 1st Reefs, and set steering Sails – scrubbed bags – Served Thick portable Soup, for Breakfast – at 8 a pleasant breeze & fine weather cleaned below and aired with fires – Served Krout – portable soup & bore cole in the pease for dinner – Broached a puncheon of Spruce beer Mustered the Ships Company in Divisions, read the articles of war and performed divine Service

11 am: at 11 Saw an Island fromn the Topmast head bearing SWBW – very fine clear weather. The Island* A bearing S48W from the deck – saw two other Lands fromthe Topmast head bearing WBS & WSW – Saw a Large bird of the petterel Kind, by the Otaheitean people called Otaha Latitude Observed 18..25..32 South

* Sunday Island   [Not to be confused with the Sunday Island encountered on the Launch Voyage.]


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