The weather fine,
but the sea continued agitated. About 10 this morning it began to moderate.
Latitude at 12 o'clock 38° 24". The sea much abated. I gave orders to
allowance our fresh water on board on account of the visible waste. At
sunset tacked, wind S. Course W. S. West. The Breeze continued till 12 o'clock
at night and then fell calm. Observed 2 strange vessels in the Fleet, one a
tobacco vessel taken bound to France, the other a Privateer which took one of
our horse sloops astern of our fleet off the Delaware, but both retaken by the
boats of one of our Ships of War.
SOURCE: G. D. Scull,
Editor, The Montresor Journals, pp. 431-2
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