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which was the best man, poor Jack of course got the worst
of it, the Captain came forward, and struck him one
or two blows, which he bore without flinching the Captain
then ordered him to be tried [tied] up to the rigging, for the
purpose of giving him a flogging, but this time the
mate interceded for him, so he let him off and he returned
to his duty, this as may readily be supposed created considerable
excitement in this little world of ours furnished matter
for the long winded ones to harp uppon all day, and a
great many arguments, pro and con, were offered; and
many verry sage oppinions expressed, to the justice and
injustice of the matter, and so the matter passed off

Friday. Feb. [February] 16. [centered]

Lat. [Latitude] 16°. 00" [inches] Lon [Longitude] ... wind still same, course to south east, with
a heavy sea. Weather getting to be extremely rather hot, and finding it
anything but pleasant to sleep down between decks with
120 persons, I took my mattrass up on top of the hause placed it
under one of the boats placed lashed there bottom up
and slept verry comfortably. The most inconvenient
part being was getting in, and out, of my sleeping appa-
rtment, for the boat rested on with the stern and stern
on the deck, which left a space of about 7 or 8 inches between
the middle part of the rail and the deck, so that by laying flat
on the deck I would just squeeze myself in, but this did
not prevent my having companions, of whom one was Emerson,
and we continued to sleep there as long as the weather would permit
There are I believe something like 15 boats on board belonging to
the passengers, who had formed small parties or clubs of from five, to
ten, persons; bought a boat and laid in st provisions enough to
last from six months to two years, after arriving at our
destination. Arragements were made to day [to] celebrate the
birth day of Washington on the 22^d ...

Saw a large barque far to windward, lon steering North.

Saturday 17th [centered]

Lat [Latitude] 04° 34" [inches] Lon [Longitude] 34° 05" Wind N.E. ... Course south east, weather
verry fine

Sunday 18th [centered]

Lat [Latitude] 02° 42" Lon [Longitude]32° 01" Wind blowing fr strong from NE course SE.

Forenoon prayers and a sermon were read.

Towards night the wind gradually died away and the
sky looked lowerg [lowering] and threatening, the evening verry
dark with occasional flashes of lightning.

I turned in under the boat about 10 oclock and was soon
dreaming of doing what I never did do, viz washing sheep
from which I was awakened sometime in the night