Very Strong gales with heavy Squalls of Wind, hail and rain. At 4 PM _^^{being in the Latd of 40° 22' So and} having not the least Visiable signs of Land, we wore and brought too und_^^er the fore sail and reefd the Main sail and handed it. I did intend to have stood to the Southward, if the winds had been moderate so long as they continued Westerly _^^{notwithstanding we had no prospect of meeting with land, rather than stand back to ye northrd on the same track as we came}   but as the weather is _^^was so very tempestuous I _^^{laid a side this design}, thought thinking it the more advisable to stand to the Northward in hope of meeting with _^^into better weather least we should receive such damages in our sails & rigging as might hinder the further prosecutions of the Voyage —

Albetroses, Pintado Birds and Doves about the Ship, and a Bird larger than a duck, his plumage of a dark brown, with a yallow beak. we saw of these birds in our passage to the northward after doubling Cape Horn. At Noon the weather was more Moderate   set the reef'd Main sail, a great Sea from the WSW —

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