Clowdy unsettled weather with some rain. In the AM found the Variation by the Ampde and Azth 7°..40' West Hoisted a boat out and sent on board the Houghton for the Surgeon Mr Carret in order to look at Mr Hicks who is so far gone in a Consumption that his Life is de[s]paired of — Obsern at Noon 16 Miles to the northward of the Log —