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Bark Mercator Newbedford on Abrolhos ground bound for W- indies

Remarks onboard Fryday March 14^th
All these 24 hours lite brezes from N by W with some lite squalls
of rain @ 6 Pm finished boiling & cooled down try works cleaned up
Decks &c @ 8 sot all sail So ends this day Latt by obser 18.03
At 4 Pm Long By Chronom 34.56

Remarks onboard Saturday March 15^th
All these 24 hours lite airs & from N by E & calm with some lite squalls
of rain &c stereing by the wind to N&W @ 9 Am 1 sail in sight
Stereing to S So ends these 24 hours Latt By observ 17.54
At 4 Pm Long By Chron 35.12

Remarks on board Sunday March 16^th
All these 24 hours lite airs from NE by E & calm stered by the
Wind to N @ 6 Am 1 sail in sight to the E So ends these
24 hours with very lite airs Latt by observ 17.29
At 4 Pm Long By Chron 35.24

Remarks onboard Monday March 17^th
All these 24 hours attends with lite winds from E to ESE cours stered
NNE @ 6 Pm sot top mast studing sail &c @day light took in studing sail
Wind cant to E @ 8 Am 2 sail in sight stereing to S @ we coopered the oil
&c @ 11 saw 2 more stereing do So ends this day Latt By obser 16.43
At 4 Pm Long By Chronom 35.15

Remarks onboard Tuseday March 18^th
All these 24 hours lite winds from E heading NNE @ 11 Pm saw
Black fish @ day light got up [tacles?] broke out in the mane hatch
Way & stowed down oil So ends these 24 hours stowing down oil
Latt By observ 15.52
At 5 Pm Long By Chron 35.36
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NOTES
1. Line 1: The Abrolhos Bank (off the State of Bahia, northeastern Brazil) is the most important breeding and calving ground for humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, in the western South Atlantic. Ref: Albuquerque-Martins, et al, January 2001, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47:563-570