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388. to Batavia
these light winds which would have been almost intolerable to empty stomachs sat pretty easily on our full ones
24. Breeze freshning by very gradual degrees together with a long swell heaving in from the Southward sure sign that there was now no more land to interrupt us in that direction was an agreable subject of conversation infinite flying fish & bobies some Gannets seen
25. Trade fish Gannets Bobies & Conversation much as yesterday
26. Trade rather slacker than it had been Eat today a buttock of Buffaloe which had been 3 days in salt it eat so well & had so thouroughly taken salt that it was resolvd to Salt meat for the ships company when our biggest Buffaloes who would weigh above 300 lb were killd
27. Trade fresher & more to the S. Men of War birds Gannets & Black Shearwaters in abundance
28. Squally in the night with rain & fine fresh trade shov'd us on Merrily our beef experiment was this day tried & succeeded but scurvily the meat which had been killd on the 26th was not salted till Cold it hardly stunk the outside
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