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Thursday Nov~ber 1st
Wether fine with a light Breeze passed Cape
Bon at 8.a.m. Passed an inhabited Ileland on
the Coast of Africa at 4 p.m.

Friday 2sd
Fine day [with] light Breeze at 3 p.m. Sighted
the [Revolveing] lighthouse on the Ileland of Malta
at 11.p.m Very Calm & Moolight & Sighted the Standing
Light house at the Entrance of the Harbour.

Saturday 3rd 4th Week
At 5.a.m. Entered the Harbour of Malta,
a Splented Sight the light house lit up & the
Diffrent Harbour & Forts & Rocks the Buildings
are bilt of Stone with Fancy Masony Work
Anchored in the Grand Harbour at 10.a.m Small
boats came along side & took us off with our
Lugged [luggage] & rowed round the light house to the
Qurantine Bay at the end of which we landed
at a Stone Building known as the New Hospitle
Lazerreta Ileland Very fine & warm & Bathed
in the Bay & walk round the Ileland & View
H.M.S. Wasp laying off Fort Manuel & went
through the Fort &c home to my New
Quaters had to Sleep on the frool [floor] which
Stone but the Damp proved Very Bad
to us which had not been used to such a Thing