August 20
These 24 hours commences. Light winds and clear weather. Laying too repairing sails. At 9 PM made sail.

Middle and Latter part fresh Gales and a crop sea, with light rains and thick foggy weather. At 7 AM saw the Barke, our prize to Leeward. Split the Jib, took it in to repair it.
So ends.

From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.

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