Friday Sept 18th Cut the wings off one of my Cape Pigeons.
Lat 52.23 Long 133.2
Sat Sept. 19th It was too rough to wash down the decks; fearful big green seas coming aboard.
Lat 54.14 Long 128.27
Sunday Sept. 20th Very heavy & dirty weather. Worked hard all day. Had to make a lot of nettles for the mainsail, the rovings having carried away.
Monday Sept 21st One of the crew have been very ill with palpitation of the heart ever since we left Sydney. He has been taken worse today than ever.
Lat 57.48 Long 116.21
Tuesday Sept 22nd Fearfully cold day Ice & snow on deck.
Lat 59.17 Long 111.14
Wed. Sept 23rd Saw an iceberg in the distance. Fearfully cold. Iron burns like live coal if touched with a bare hand. The vicinity of icebergs is the cause of the intense cold.
Lat 59.52 Long 106.5
Thursd. Sept 24th Not so cold today. Saw a tremendous Sperm whale about 10 yards off the ship. He was a splendid fellow.
Friday Sept 25th Made nettles all day for the rovings of the sails. The sails are all beginning to carry away from the jack-stays in consequence of the constant chaffing caused by the heavy weather that we have experienced.
Sat Sept 26th Had to stand by all day. It was snowing too hard to do any work.
Lat 58.46 Long 77.9
Sunday Sept 27th Very heavy weather again today. We have not had a fine Sunday since we left Sydney, but have had heavy weather every Sunday.
Monday Sept 28th We are fast nearing the Horn.
Lat 59.4 Long 71.3
Tuesday Sept 29th Connor is very bad & not expected to live to the Tropics. For a whole fortnight he has not been able to get into his bunk, but has to sit by the forecastle fire all (night) & all day, sleeping there as best he can.
Wed. Sept 30th Head wind has caused us to go about and heave to.
Lat 58.12 Long 69
Thursday Oct. 1st Connor managed to get into his bunk today being a little better, & it is my belief he will never get out of it again alive.
Lat 57.59 Long 70.24
Friday Oct 2nd Caught a snowbird & got Upperton (�Master) to skin one for me. Still hove to, but signs of a favourable wind before morning on the horizon.
Lat 56.52 Long 70 .15
Sat. Oct. 3rd Favourable wind at last. Wind dead aft & spinning along at the rate of 13 knots. Shall be of(f) the Horn tomorrow at this pace.
Sunday Oct 4th Sighted a small island early in the morning called Juan Ruriandviey or some comical name like that. In the evening at 6 p.m. we passed the Horn at about a distance of 12 miles off. We had our royals st the whole time whilst going round, a memorable affair and a very rare one. Lat 56.11 Long 68.19
Monday Oct 5th Saw a tremendous lot of whales all round the ship.
Tuesday Oct 6th Sighted Staten Island at 6.10 a.m. Still running due East to keep clear to the south�ard of the Falkland Islands.
Wed Oct 7th At last we are beginning a little bit to the nor�ard.
Thursday Oct 8th Already we have begun to feel a difference in the climate. Mother Carey�s chickens too have begun to come round the ship again. The sea here is like a mill pond compared to the fearful great rollers of the Southern Ocean round about Cape Horn.
Friday Oct 9th A still calm came on and lasted all day. Very cloudy. I prophesy a gale most likely a Pampiero.
Lat 52.37 Long 58.12
Sat Oct 10th It began to blow in the morning a heavy gale commonly known as a Pampiero, but we were too far to eastward to feel the worst of it. However it was quite heavy enough to make us shorten sail. It was almost over by 8 p.m. so we began to set sail again. A heavy snowstorm came on board about 9.15 p.m.
