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113.
Decr. 1769.  of Cape Maria Van Diemen

resolvd of them to make a Goose pye for tomorrows dinner

25. Christmas day  Our Goose pye was Eat with great approbation & in the Evening all hands were as Drunk as our forefathers usd to be upon the like occasion

26. This morn all heads achd with yesterdays debauch  wind has been Easterly these 3 or 4 days so we have not got at all nearer the Island than we were

27. Blows very hard a SE.  so that we were again drove off the Land  not much displeasd as we all rejoicd much that it was not an on shore wind.

28. Wind now SW right on shore but thank god we have so good an offing that we are in not the least danger  all our sea people said that they never before were in so hard a summers Gale

29. Wind more moderate but still blows prodigiously fresh with a monstrous sea   n o such summer Gales as this to the Norward sayd our Captn.

30. Blew very fresh still tho the heart of the Gale seemd to be broke  we have been driven much to the Northward so that today we once

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