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Atlantic Ocean

First mate’s logbook

In the morning and forenoon we had the wind from SSW to SSE and a thickly clouded sky with rain. We caught 4 AumeA Dutch liquid measure of approximately 155 litersaumes of water. At noon our estimated compound course and covered distance of the last 24 hours was S by W½W 1½ mile. We got to the estimated north latitude of 2º23’, longitude 18º55’. During the afternoon and dog watches the wind we had a weak reefed and also Sail of which the surface area is two times reduceddouble-reefed topsail breeze from SSE. The sky was squally. We put in a second reef. Later at night we had a weak double-reefed and also single-reefed topsail breeze from S by W to S by E. Thick clouds drifted overhead until the morning.