Day Six
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"As soon as it was daylight I commenced washing clothes and continued till breakfast. During the early hours of the morning a flying fish did the very unwise act of flying without looking where it was going and therefore ended up nicely placed on deck. Reggie picked it up and so for breakfast we had a fish course.
At midday it suddenly struck me it was my birthday. I advertised the fact and greetings came fast and furious but anything more substantial was not forthcoming excepting the gift of one Capstan cigarette from Reggie. I turned my sea chest out in the afternoon and gloated over the large amount of gear I have not got.
In the evening the port watch took in the main upper topga'n'sail. Weather became unsettled towards nightfall."