Two months later. Picked the grapes; now for some wine—Ham is a model boy; did him good to rope's-end him.
Five months later. Wine has worked; will serve grog to-morrow and celebrate the anniversary of our shipwreck.
Next day. (The manuscript of this last day's entry is obscure, and so incoherent, as to make it strongly probable that Captain Noah served the grog as indicated, and that he wrote while under the influence of the same. There are, however, some legible references to certain "pugs" which would go to show that he still had those animals in mind and perhaps regretted his failure to effect their extinction.—Translator.)