Day Fifty Seven
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"5 am. Dead calm and we hauled the mainsail up at 5.30. At 6 am, 7 am, 7.45, we braced up the yards. At 9 am the other watch braced the hard up and brailed in the spanker and hauled down the mizzen staysail. At 3.45 pm we were caught aback on the lee bow and tacked ship. 7 pm a breeze came and we set the spanker, mizzen staysail and mainsail and squared in the yards a little bit.
The cook made his will today in favour of one of the men. The said man being the eldest in the fo'castle and just about able to walk as he suffers greatly from rheumatism and various other ailments, some being imaginary ones. The cook is better one minute, dying the next and middling the next. Joe and Bosun are better but one other man is laid up."