Tuesday, 4th—Calm for the Greatest part of the 24 Hours. By an Observation we had this Morning of the Sun and Moon found our Selves in the Longitude of 22° 32′ 30″ W. from Greenwich; that by accoᵗ is 21° 58′, the Difference being 34 miles Westerly, which does not agree with the Setting of the Current, for having try'd it twice to-day and found it set to the E.S.E. 1 Mile per Hour, and at the same time found the Ship to the Southward of the Log by the Noon Observation 10 miles. Served Portable soup and Sour kroutt to the Ship's Company. Wind variable; course S. 53° W.; distance 17 m.; lat. 11° 53′ N., long. 22° 33′ W.; at noon, Bonavista, S.E. point, N. 2° E., 82 leagues.
Wednesday, 5th.—Light breezes of Wind, sometimes Clear and sometimes Cloudy weather. Variation 6° 10′ W. by an Amplitude and Azimuth this evening. At noon found the Ship by the Observed Latitude 7 Miles to the Southward of the Log, and by the Observed Longitude 30° to the Eastward of Yesterday's Observations; and as these Observations for finding the Longitude (if carefully observed with good Instrument) will generally come within 10 or 15 Miles of each other, and very often much nearer, it therefore can be no longer in Doubt but that there is a Current setting to the Eastward;[1] yet we cannot have had this Current long, because the Longitude by account and that by Observation agree to-day, but Yesterday she was 28 m. to the Westward of the Observation. Wind calm, N.E., E.; course S. 29° E.; distance 57 m.; lat. 10° 56′ N., long. 22° 3′ W.; at noon, Bonavista, S.E. point, N. 2° E., 101 leagues.
Thursday, 6th.—First part light Breezes and Cloudy; Middle frequent heavy Squalls, with rain, till towards Noon. when we had again little wind. Found the Variation by the mean of 3 Azimuth, taken this Morning, to be 8° 52′ W., which makes the Variation found Yesterday doubtful. Wind N.E., S.E., Sᵒly; course S. 10° 30′ W.; distance 77 m.; lat. 9° 40′ N., long. 22° 28′ W.; at noon, Bonavista, S.E. point, N. 4° E., 128 leagues.
Friday, 7th.—Variable light Airs and Calm all these 24 Hrs. At Noon found the Current to set S.E. ¼ S. one Mile per hour, and yet by Observation at Noon I find the Ship 12 Miles to the Northward of Account, a Circumstance that hath not hapned for many days, and which I believe to be owing to the heavy Squalls we had Yesterday from the S.E., which obliged us to put frequently before the Wind. Wind Southerly, calm, Northerly; course S. 5° W.; distance 10 m.; lat. 9° 42′ N., long. 22° 19′ W.; at noon, Bonavista, S.E. point, N. 4° E., 127 leagues.
Saturday, 8th—First part, light Airs and Clear weather; Middle, Squally, with Thunder and Lightning all round; latter part,
- ↑ This was the Counter Equatorial Current.
