Diary_Journal_of_a_Passenger_0031

will allow you to slick them down.
We were forty days at Sea and
had not made over five hundred
Miles Towards San Francisco
on the Evning [evening] of the fortieth day
we were blessed with a change of
wind which was in our favour [favor] for
about Seven days Sometimes running
at the rate of ten nots [knots] per hour which
we enjoyed Very Much, with this
wind Came heavy rain of which
we Saved about Seven casks. Which
Saved us So far from going into
port to Water up to the 15th of
July we have seen only three Vessels.

Our provision stile [still] holds out and
we have Just Killed the last of our