Day Fifty Three
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" 4-8 am clear weather, fine breeze. 5.30 am braced up the yards a bit. 9.45 am port watch furled the two lower topga'n'sails.
Cook is ill and groans horribly when anyone is near. Gets no sympathy as the general opinion is he is bluffing. The men tell him he is rather too small to make an Albatros but may make a Mollyhawk. They also remark on the good cooking now. Joe is doing duty as cook. Good strong breeze. "