Wednesday 11 May 1836

Most part of this 24 hours heavy squalls with rain
carried away a studding sail boom three sail in
sight AM Obs^d a distance between the À and Å which
gives our long^d 23.24 West Latt^d Obs^d 2.7 South
met in the everning for reading and praying six
attended on our knees in prayer and read 13^th chapt
1^st epistle of St Paul the apostle to the Corint^ns with the
track commentray one young man sayd he felt hims
elf a great sinner and wanted pardon and hoped to
git it but had and felt much to contend with I told
him angles rejoiced to see sinners turn to God
I felt this was an incouragement to be faithfull