Weather– Gale from the N.W. Double reefed
Wind—- Topsails, unpleasant Weather
This is Sunday, the first on Shipboard, and how will it be Spent Shall we So Soon forget the command, Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy, God forbid.
A few and “I am Sorry to Say a very few” may be Seen reading the Bible, that Book of Books. Oh that we loved it more. So that when we read our minds might be filled or well Stored with its Sacred truthes.
I am Sorry to have it to record, that there is very little to distinguish this day from any others of the week, how different from a Sabbath Spent among Christian friends. Still, deprived as we are of that great blessing it is a consoling thought, that God, who rules the Nations of the Earth, and controls the waters of the mighty Deep, he who hears the Cries of his Children from the Earthey portion of his footstool; their god is the God of the Sojourner upon the great Ocean, and is ever ready to hear the prayers of those who put their trust in him, his guarding, and protecting power is manifest on the Sea as well as on the Land. what a blessing to have God, the Maker of every thing that was made, near us even upon the green Waters.
Evening- The Gale continues before which we are Scuding with great velosity, and there being a heavy Sea on the Ship rolls terrably. I think “from appearances nown that many of us will Spend a Sleepless night douring the one that is approaching This day has done much, by way of revealing the true charactors of our Ships company. “Severaly” to describe Such a verity would fill a volume, and would require a better Scribe, than he who now writes these pages, away from the restraints of Home, and Home influences, Such as are begotten by the presance of good virtueal Wives, Moral Parents, Brothers and Sisters. I Say away from all these, a large proportion of Our Company act as though they were let loose, and wish to Show to all around their true or real dispositions.