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Buchanan, Liberia

First mate’s logbook

In the morning and throughout the day there was a NNE by S gentle calm, margin: we bought a Piece of elephant’s tusk or small tusk.scrivellor. With 5 Glasses in a watchThe length of the watches was measured using an hourglass filled with sand. Each watch consisted of 8 half-hour glasses, marked by bells.glasses into the first watch our boatswain’s mate Hans Cramer from Norway fell overboard and drowned. Good weather throughout the night till morning.