In the morning we had a topgallant sail breeze from SSW and dark skies. At sunrise we fired 7 shots and we were thanked with 5 shots from the fort. We had the AximGhanafort of Axim ENE½E of us. We could not sail to the roadstead because the wind came too much from S. When 5 The length of the watches was measured using an hourglass filled with sand. Each watch consisted of 8 half-hour glasses, marked by bells glasses had ran out in the forenoon our rope broke. We put up additional sails and sailed a bit from to shore to 10½ 1 fathom = 6 feet (170 cm) fathoms of sticky ground. We anchored into the same ground at depth for our mooring bower, and we had the fort to E by N of us. Later the sea was high. We found another two places where the rope had snapped, so we got of 9 fathoms of the single rope. We got 1 canoe of ballast and 3 canoes of water on board. Later throughout the day, evening and night we had an average topgallant sail breeze from SSE. The weather was good until the morning.