[May 31]
Sabbath day being ye 3 Lords day, fayre & calme; wee saw abundance of grampas fishes, 2 or 3 yards long, & a body as bigg as an oxe.
[June 1]
Monday ye wind westerly & calme: but besides or being stayed by contrary winds we began to fynd ye temperature of ye ayre to alter & to become more soletry & subject to vnwholsome foggs. For coming now to ye height of ye westerne Islands, soe of or men fell sicke of ye scuruie & others of the small pockes, wch more & more increased: yet thankes be to God none dyed of it but my owne child mencond. And therefore, according to or great need we appointed another fast for the next day.
[2.]
Tewsday we solemnely celebrate another fast. The Lord yt day heard vs before wee prayed & gaue vs aunswere before we called; for early in ye morning ye wind turned full East, being as fitt a wind as could blowe. And sitting at my study on ye shipps poope I saw many bonny fishes & porpuses pursuing one another, and leaping soe of ym a yard aboue ye water. Also as we were at prayer, vnder ye hatch, soe yt were aboue saw a whale puffing vp water not farre fro ye shippe. Now my wiffe was prettily well recouered of her sea sicknesse.
[3.]
[June]
Wednesday a fayre day & fyne gale of full East wind. This day my selfe & others saw a large round fish sayling by ye ships side about a yard in length & roundnes euery way. The mariners cald it a sunne fish; it spreadeth out ye finnes like beames on euery side 4, or 5.
[4, 5.]