The weather was calm in the morning. At sunrise we passed the watch-post and we fired 3 as greetingshots. When The length of the watches was measured using an hourglass filled with sand. Each watch consisted of 8 half-hour glasses, marked by bells. 3 glasses had run out we dropped the anchor at 10 feet. During the afternoon we had a squally sky with thunder, lightning, wind and rain. At low tide we raised anchor and drifted off. 2 glasses into the dog watches we hit the ground at 9 feet water at Maripaanwestern shore Berbice, shallow coastel watersMarapaan [Maripaan, westerlijke oever Berbice; ondiep kustwater]. During high water we found the depth to be no more than 12 feet, even though it was high tide. At night we had a dark sky until the morning.