We are now become so sickly that we seldom can muster above 12 or 14 hands to do duty.
Monday, 26th.

In the night had much rain, after which the Westerly Monsoons set in, which blow here generally in the night from the South-West or from the land, in the day from the North-West or North.
Tuesday, 27th, Wednesday, 28th, Thursday, 29th, Friday, 30th, [December 1770.] Saturday, December 1st, Sunday, 2nd, Monday, 3rd, Tuesday, 4th, Wednesday, 5th, Thursday, 6th, Friday, 7th.

Employ'd getting on board Stores, Provisions, Water, rigging the Ship, repairing and bending the Sails.

On the last of these days, having got all the Sick on board, and every other thing from the Island, we hauled off from the Wharfe with a design to run up to Batavia road, but the Wind proving scant obliged us to lay at anchor.
[At Batavia.] Saturday, 8th.

Fresh breezes Westerly, and fair weather.