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Sunday March 16th Rio de Janeiro - 9.30 inspected
lower decks, mustered by Open Sist, and
sent a party on shore to Church. Forgot to mention in
yesterday's remarks, that Lennon and I were ordered to
go ashore in search of Mr Ross after meeting him, we
found him in a state of madness, and it was with
some difficulty we got him off. Put Hicks in the list
with Diarrhoia, but rather suffering from D.T. At 1 PM
the Commdr came from the Ocean Monarch with some
young ladies, and took them and their Father in
the 2nd gig for a cruize : we afterwards
went away in the cutter with two Officers from the
Madagascar, and after running a good long distance,
stopped at a small island where we got and ate
lots of oysters. We then crossed over the Bay to
Grandy's Island where we dined, and amused
ourselves afterwards with leap frog, jumping and
shying at empty bottles of which there was a good
number - At 7.30 made a start for the Ship and
reached her about midnight, after a very pleasant,
sail, altho' our Mate (Senors) did fall overboard and
thereby lost his cap.

March 17th A signal from Flag Ship to prepare for
sea tomorrow at 6 AM. Sent for the tank to complete
with water, and in the afternoon sent our Steward on
shore for some necessaries and he returned very
drunk. In the evening there was a soiree on board
the Ocean Monarch.