Day Thirty Five
Lat. 45° 59' S Long. 127° 41' W Dist. 79 miles
"We were called ten minutes early as it was all hands furl the foresail. It was raining and very cold.
At one o'clock the second mate laid up and I had to walk the poop for the rest of the watch. It was raining hard all the time and needless to say I felt like a drowned rat.
At 3 am I had to come down from the poop and put on dry oilskins as mine were soaked. No oilskins will keep out three hours of perpetual rain. The last half hour seemed like a lifetime and I was jolly glad to turn in at 4 am.
The port watch squared the yards at 7.30 am and at 9.30 am we canted the yards a bit as the wind had hauled to the starboard quarter. We set the foresail at 10.30. The port watch set the main topsail at 12.30 pm. We set the mainmast quivering with our singing during the dogwatch"