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PORTER S JOURNAL 



I Sailing-master 

 1 Chaplain 

 1 Purser 



1 Surgeon 



2 Surgeon's mates 

 12 Midshipmen 



1 Boatswain 

 1 Gunner 

 1 Carpenter 

 I Sail-maker 



1 Captain's clerk 



2 Master's mates 



3 Boatswain's mates 

 2 Gunner's mates 



1 Carpenter's mate 



1 Armourer 



1 Master at arms* 



1 Cook 



1 Boatswain's yeoman I 

 1 Gunner's do. 



1 Carpenter's do. 

 7 Quartermaster's 

 7 Quarter-gunners 



2 Sergeants 

 2 Corporals 

 1 Drummer 

 1 Fifer 



25 Private marines 

 227 C Seamen, ordinary seamen, 

 ^ landsmen, boys, and su?- 

 pernumeraries 



319 Total 



On the 2d of November, the weather began to grow 

 more moderate, in consequence of which, we got up from 

 below all the bread and vegetables stowed on the birth- 

 deck, for the purpose of separating the damaged from the 

 rest. Found about four barrels of bread entirely spoiled, 

 and the same quantity of apples. Ail the barrels were 

 wet; we therefore started the whole of them, dried the 

 provisions, repacked and stowed them away to more ad- 

 vantage, securing them against farther damage from leaks 

 by covering them with tarpawlings ; also, cut two scuttles in 

 the birth-deck, to carry olf such water as might enter by 

 the leaks in the water-ways, stem, and down the hatchways ; 

 also, took advantage of the good weather to fleet and set 

 up our main rigging, to render the masts more secure ; un- 

 bent the fore-topsail, which was injured by chafing, and 

 bent another. 



Having had favourable winds since our departure, we 

 this day found ourselves in the latitude of 36 " 7' north ; lon- 

 gitude, by dead reckoning, 58° 54' west; but with a view 

 of getting into a latitude where we might expect more mo- 

 derate weather, as well as to cross the track of vessels 

 bound from England to Bermudas, and those from the 

 West-Indies to Europe, stood to the southeast. 



