In the morning the wind was a topsail breeze from S by E. At dawn we saw a snow ship to N of us lying around the E. After 5 The length of the watches was measured using an hourglass filled with sand. Each watch consisted of 8 half-hour glasses, marked by bellsglasses had ran out the aforementioned ship tacked about the W with us and it tried really hard to get closer to us. In the forenoon the same ship showed an English flag. At noon our estimated compound course and covered distance of the last 24 hours was W by S 14 miles. We arrive at the estimated latitude of 3º00’ , longitude 18º11′, and we found latitude to be 3º47’. The English ship fired a shot to hail us. We kept a distance, and with 3 glasses we hailed him. We put out our rowboat and came aboard his ship. After 5 glasses in the afternoon had ran out our rowboat came back on board and we set sail again. We let it to tack about the WSW and left the aforementioned snow ship to the east of us. The ship claimed it came from Liverpool. Later, during the dog watches, it was stormy with rain. Later at night we had a weak reefed topsail breeze with thick clouds drifting overhead with drizzling rain. After 5 glasses in the middle watch had ran out we came about ESE. It remained this way until the morning.