Day Thirty Nine
Lat. 47° 51' S Long. 115° 34' W Dist. 137 miles
"The port watch set the mainsail at 6 am this morning and braced up the yards a bit. I spent the morning in the sail locker sorting the potatoes. Dumping the rotten ones and after cutting off the rat-eaten portions of the potatoes the rats had satisfied their hunger on and placing them for immediate use.
We squared in the yards at 10.30 am and hauled down the staysails. At 5.30 pm we made the mainsail fast and the port watch braced up the yards and furled the upper topga'n'sails at 7 pm. At 9 pm we braced the yards up a bit more and set staysails. We furled the lower topga'n'sails at 11 pm and I came down and had some tea and pie."