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Elmina, Ghana

First mate’s logbook

In the morning the wind was a gentle breeze from the N and we had good weather. The boat came back with firewood and in the afternoon we sent it out again to fetch more. In the afternoon we had a gentle top gallant breeze and the weather was good. An English a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other mastsbarquentine, headed for Cape CoastGhanaCape Corso, passed us here. We assembled two water barrels. During the dog watches we had good weather and a gentle. It was that way until morning