Week Ds &Ca Winds Course's Distce Sail'd Latd In South Longd in West [of Greenwich] Bearings &Ca [at Noon]
Sept 69            
Thurs. 7 Westerly S 80° Wt 15 37..52 147..49  

Fresh gales and hard squalls with rain. At 3 PM saw something upon the water which must either have been a billet of Wood or a Seal — At Noon a hard gale and squally ^which obliged us to take took in the topsails