l3th. Found our births very comfortable, my Father sleeping without a shirt, a strong breeze but not
exactly in our favour.
14th. Sunday. Valentines day, on which day I calculated to have been in Jamaica neither had I the
pleasure of having a valentine sent to me in the Atlantic, the wind right a head
15th. A foul wind, but I danced, dined and slept well.
16th. Shrove Tuesday. pan cake day, but the Capt had not the good nature to send me one aitho'
he had plenty.
17th. Ash Wednesday. Disliked the Capt very much for not giving me a pan cake yesterday.
18th. A foul wind, saw a brig about 4 miles off and in about 2 hours she came along side of us
to speak to our Capt; he said that on the 3rd. which was our dreadful stormy night, his boat was
washed away from the stern and the sea broke in the Cabin windows and filled the cabin with water
which nearly drowned the passengers: her name was the Orion, bound for Barbados, he asked our Capt
if he had seen his boat but we had not.
20th. In the Trade Winds so that we shall have a fair wind all the way to Jamaica: we were stopped in
the middle of our dance by the cabin boy's coming and telling us that one of the lady passengers had just
expired which soon put a stop to our amusement.
21st. Sunday. Learnt that the dead lady was to be thrown overboard at
8 a.m. the Capt called all hands together and read the funeral service, she was then thrown over
board sewed up in a sheet; one of the sailors said he was glad that she had died because they were all
to have an extra glass of grog.