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by friends and the forms of society, young men
are forming habits that will probably cling to
them through life, causing, their friends to deplore,
and themselves to curse the day that they embarked on
this voyage round Cape Horn. But tis not thus with
all, for there are many good and true men, on board ...
men whose influence will be felt wherever they go, on
the side of morality and religion, men who respect the
laws, and institutions of our country, and who will, I hope
build up society, in the land to which we are bound ... an
as good, and firm, a basis that of our own New England

[centered] Friday 30^th

Lat about 48° 30" ... Lon [Longitude] 57" 45 ... For the last three days we
have made but verry little head way ... the wind being
most of the time, nearly dead ahead, varying from west
South to west, and blowing so that most of the time
we have been under close reefed top sails, our situation
is all things considered anything but pleasant ... the victually
arrangements are miserable indeed; last week we had they had
another barrell of sour molasses brought up and Tap't [Tapped];
but it lasted but a short time, for one dark night the
spill, was taken out, ^ and it soon spread itself over the deck, which
caused our old Neptune, our second mat [mate], whose watch
it was; to swear terribly; but a few buckets of water soon
sent it out through the lee scuppers, as poison for fishes ...
The stewards get drunk and quarrell and the mates
have has been found by the Captain, drunk, and asleep on his
watch. Still with all this se hope notwithstanding notwithstanding all this
we hope, when that leaves us we shall begin to grow desperate

This morning the sun rose clear ... wind beautiful. as it
I never saw it look so large as when it first rose ^ as it from the sea
a thin haze obscured its brightness, so that the eye could
rest uppon it without pain. We have the promise of a very
fine day, the wind blowing from the west; steering south
by west.

They took a lunar observati[on] this afternoon, and found
the longitude to be 48° 45"

[centered] Saturday 31^st

Lat 50° 14 ... Lon about 60 ... about noon the wind commenced blowing verry
strong from the west, sky clear and bright, we are supposed
to be near the Falklands and the large quantities of
kelp and rock weed that are cas constantly floating past
us conferms the supposition