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She receives a dale of damage, + many is wracked tatty, alwies
about the line, + about the Cap these galls are very common,
and creates a dale of damage, + losses of life + Shipes, Today we had a new
passenger on board, a Bird who had been exausted flying + took refuge [illegible?]
the Mast of our ship but as we were changing direction very offt it dis-
-apeared before Midday. towards evening several galls appered, but
none of them tucked us, yet a small distance before out ship a cloud of
tremendous darkness passed past, where ferfull flashes of lightning
appered quivering in all directions, + tremendous peals of thunder
was to be heard all the afternoon, but Miss Neptune keeped her word
to me for affull as the afternoon was , nothing [illegible?] near our
Ship unless a shower of Raine which casted the grater part of the
afternoon, the 16th was quite calm + I believe we did not advance
the inch + the Sun was excedingly hote, which brings out all
over every ones skin that cursed prickly heat, which
Make us scratch very much, 17th wether very calm, + [illegible?]
I mounted Guard + about 5 or 6 P.M. too men jumped

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