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Week-days. |Sept. 1779.|Wind.|Courses. |Dist.|Lat. |Long. | Bearings.
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| | |Waiting for | | | | Flamboro.
Wednesday,\| 22.23. | S.E.|Convoy till |None.|54° 9'|0°5' E.| H.
Thursday. /| | |11 of | | | | N. by W.
| | |Thursday. | | | |
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The rest of that page is blank. The right page, headed, "_Remarks, &c.,
on board H.M.S. Serapis_," in the boy's best copy-hand, goes on with
longer entries than any before.
"42 vessels reported for the convoy. Mr. Mycock says we shall not wait
for the rest."
"10 o'clock, A.M. Thursday. Two men came on board with news of the
pirate Jones. Signal for a coast-pilot,--weighed and sailed as soon as
he came. As we pass Flamboro' Head, two sails in sight S.S.W., which the
men say are he and his consort."