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Liberia

First mate’s logbook

In the morning, at the beginning of the morning watch, we had a gentle breeze from the NE, but mostly it was calm. We raised anchor and set sail. We found our rope to be damaged. At the start of the forenoon we received a canoe from  ButawLiberiaBottowa on board and bought a boy slave, No. 30. In the forenoon there was a NE still wind. At noon we had a gentle to a moderate topgallant sail breeze from the SW with a misty sky. At sundown we had the tree and small mountain of GreenvilleLiberiaSino to the NNO of us and we saw an English snow tacking up. At 6 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 dog watches we dropped anchor at 32  1 fathom = 6 feet (170 cm)fathoms on muddy ground because of a calm. Throughout the night there was a gentle SSW and S breeze and misty sky till morning.