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To Cape Horn
Procellaria fregata While we were out sea the people were employed in bending the new set of sails for cape horn
23. This morn calm again went out shooting killd another new procellaria, aequorea, & many of the sorts we had seen yesterday caught Holothuria angustata a species of floating helix much smaller than those under the line Phyllodoce velella very small sometimes not so large as a silver penny yet I beleive the common species in the evening went out again killd an albatross Diomedaea exulans who measurd 9 ft 1 inch between the tipps of his wings & struck one turtle testudo caretta
24. Fair wind & steady tho but little of it
25. Christmas day all good Christians that is to say all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship wind thank god very moderate
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