In the morning it was calm. At dawn we put out the rowboat and we stored our barrels with salt water in the hold. Today the surgeon-major came on board with a boat to examine our slaves, and our slaves were thus examined. We lifted the sails and our captain went with the surgeon-major off board and upriver. During the afternoon we took down our main sail and at the beginning of high tide we lifted anchor, sailing and drifting upriver. When The length of the watches was measured using an hourglass filled with sand. Each watch consisted of 8 half-hour glasses, marked by bells. 6 glasses had run out in the dog watches a male slave jumped overboard. We didn’t see him again so we think that he drowned, No.29. With high water the anchor came at a depth of 12 feet of soft mud. Later during the night we had good weather; it was calm until the morning