We likewise saw several pieces of Sea Weed.

Wind South Easterly; course North 87 1/2 West; distance 90 miles; latitude 38 degrees 26 minutes South, longitude 172 degrees 20 minutes West.
[October 1769.] Sunday, October 1st.

Little Wind in the day time and Calm in the Night.
At 8 a.m.

sounded: no ground with 120 fathoms of line.

Saw an immence number of Birds, the most of them were Doves; saw likewise a Seal asleep upon the Water, which we at first took for a Crooked billet.