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{August} Thursday 2

This Day the wind at [?]NW fresh
gale so that at 4 P M. we were about
12 Leagues W. of Cape Sables as a fisher-
man we [?] mett told us, it being [?] [PM?]

Friday 3

This day at 8 AM we made the land of
Cape Sables bearing NN.W about 8 Leagues
{Distant?} at 6 were about 16 {Leagues} to the {East}
of {the} Cape and saw {the} Land all along shore.
the wind still continues at NW. a fair
pleasant Gale

Saturday 4

Calme all this forenoon but 12 the
wind sprung up at SW so that by
night we reckond we [near?] up with
Lahave

Sabbath Day

full of fogg all this forenoon. the wind
very fresh at [S?] the sea running pretty high.
about 2 it cleard up the wind at W
a small gale so we stood easily along E[N?]E
were about 6 or 8 Leagues E of Lahave
by night

Munday 6

a Pleasant gale at W. the most Part of
the Day so that at 12 we were off of
the Bay of Island. About 30 League west
of {the} Gul of [Caciss?], at 6 the wind veer'd
about to NNE so we lay E but in
the Evening Dy'd away. this Day came
into the fleet a Sloop {which} came out from
Salem Wensday [?] in her Passage
met a sloop [?] ketch as he told him
had been taken by a p[?]