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August 1769.     Standing to the Southward

but grey or whitish on the head and back  it was this day a twelvemonth since we left England   in consequence of which a peice of cheshire cheese was taken from a locker where it had been reservd for this occasion and a cask of Porter tappd which provd excellently good  so that we livd like English men and drank the heaths of our freinds in England

26. Few birds today cheifly Albatrosses   few pintados. in the evening several grampuses about the ship

27. Pleasant breeze  birds today as plentifull as ever   Albatrosses of both kinds   Pintados. and grey shearwaters

28. Birds as yesterday with the addition of a kind of shearwater  quite black  the same as was seen and shot on the 21st of March last in our passage to the westward (p. atrata). Tupia not well today  he complains of a pain in his stomach   his distemper probably proceeds from cold of which we have for some days past had more than from our latitude we shoud have expected  One of the seamen Rayden by name was this morn found so drunk that he had scarce any signs of life and in about an hour he expird   where he could have got his liquor is a mystery which however nobody seems to enquire into  probably not fairly   I have more than once had occasion to congratulate myself on my prudence in not

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