The first and middle parts Strong gales and Squally with rain, the remainder moderate and Clowdy. P.M. unbent the Main Topsail, being split and bent a nother. In the night lay too under the Fore sail, and in the morning made sail under the Courses and Topsails, with one reef out —

Had a large Sea from the Southward. Saw several Albetrosses Pintado Birds and Sheer-waters, some of the Albetrosses were small such as we usually saw off Cape Horn —

All these kind of birds are generaly seen at a great dist^ce from land —

Voyaging Accounts