Wednesday 25th. This morning at daybreak we observed a vessel on our lee beam, she was a Yankee Bark bound to the Northward. This afternoon the watch commenced rattling down the rigging. Johnathon was swaggering along with stun sails alow and aloft, and to keep them all drawing he could not lay so close to the wind as us by 2 points. At 2 PM we passed an outward bound French Bark, in ballast, apparently bound round the Horn. Not signalise her. There is very little wind to day, and the sea is as smooth as a mill pond. The ship will not lay her course within a point or 2, these trades being very untrue. At 8 PM a little squall, hauled down Topmast stunsail.
