Fresh gales and Clowdy, with some rain _^ ⁱⁿ the fore part of this day. All the Fore part of these 24 hours the Sea was Smooth but at 12 at night it was more so, and about 3 in the Morning one of the People saw or thought they ^he saw a Log of Wood pass the Ship; this made us think we was _^ ^were near some land, but at Day light we saw not _^ ^the least appearences of any and I did not think my self at liberty to spend time in searching for what I was not sure to find, altho at this time I did not think to _^ ^{I thought} my self _^ ^not far from those Islands discover'd by Quiros in 1606 and very probable we was ^were not, from the birds &c^a   we have seen for these 2 or 3 days past — [4]

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