The greatest part of this day little wind and clowdy, at 8 PM Cape S^t Diego at the west entrance of Strait Le Maire East Dist^ce about 5 leagues, kept under an easy sail untill day light at which time we was _^^were abreast of Cape S^t Diego and then put into the Straits, but the tide soon turn'd against us and oblige'd us to haul under the Cape again and wait untill 9 AM when it shifted in our favour     Put into the Straits again with a moderate breeze at SW which soon grew boisterous. With very h_^^eavy squalls With rain & hail and obliged us to close reef our top-sails —

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