Little wind. At 3 PM houisted out a Boat to try the current but found none, saw several Grampusses. AM. had a Boat in the water, and M^r Banks shot an Albetross which measur'd 10 feet 8 Inches from the tip of one wing to the other; he likewise shot two Birds that were very much like ducks _^ ^{excepting their head_^s and bills} their Plumage were dark brown; we first saw of these Birds in the Lat^d of 48° S^t after our first coming into those Seas —

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