Monday 6 June 1836

The Weather remain’d very fine all Yest^dy, untill 11, P,M,
when it came on to blow a heavy Gale of Wind, from S,E,
so strong that the Fore top Sail, Top gall^t Sail, Jib,
and Square sail, were taken in, and the Main sail,
close reef’d, which has cont^d the whole of this Day, accomp^d
by a tremendious cross jump of a Sea, that makes the
Vessel, pitch and roll about dreadfully, and causing
her to leak very much, being upon the larboard Tack   ___