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2.   
Standing to the Southward

intirely subsisted upon them of which we have no small number who I fear will feel the loss of them most sensibly as not one I beleive has yet eat the smallest proportion of English food

22. Fresh breeze of wind but little sea. Several Albatrosses and Pintado birds about the ship today

23. Light breeze   our hogs and fowls begin to die apace   of the latter a great many want of proper food and cold which now begins to pinch even us is I suppose the cause   afternoon calm  many Albatrosses and Pintado birds about the ship

24. The morning was calm   about 9. it began to flow fresh with rain which came on without the least warning at the same time a water spout was seen to Leward   it appeard to me so inconsiderable that had I not been shewd it I should not have particularly notic'd the apearance   it resembled a line of thick mist  as thick as a midling tree which reachd not in a strait line almost to the waters edge and in a few minutes totaly disapeard  its distance I suppose made it appear so trifling, as the Seamen judg'd it not less than 2. or 3. miles from us. Many Birds about the ship   Pintado. Common and Southern Albatross

25. Less wind today but the swell occasiond by yesterdays wind still troublesome   birds today about the ship Pintado   Common and Southern Albatross and a shearwater in size and shape like the common

 

 

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