Gentle Breezes & Clear weather. In the evening found the Variation by the Amp^de to be 22°..30' W^t    At 9 AM spoke [to] a Brig from Liverpool bound to Porto and some time after another from London bound to the Grenades, she had been three Days from Scilly and reckoned her self in the Longitude of a bout 10° West, which was about 40' to the westward of what we found our selves to day by Observⁿ   We learnt from this Vessell that no accounts had been received in England from us and that Wagers were held that we were lost: it seems highly improbable that the letters sent by the Dutch Ships from Batavia should not be come to hand, as it is now five months sence these Ships Saild from the Cape of Good Hope —

Voyaging Accounts