August 1852

4             We left Lpool at 10 a.m. West wind 2 clock Tug boat was ungeared also the Pilot let us do our best

5             Thirsday W wind rather boisterous several of the Passengers began to work their pumbs appear to be very ill wind contrarary to our progress ship tacked across the channel doing not much progress

6             Friday SSW wind we were taligraft last neight at Holyhead but first thing this morning was Holyhead close to. A grat many sickness on board

7             Saderday wind do. good breeze but against us near Ireland tacked towards mother Wales

8             Sunday do. do. 10 a.m. Bell rang for the assemblage of passengers to attend churge service wich was red in the useal form by some of the Passengers another service took place 4 p.m.

9             Munday WNW wind fair I sow some large fish jumping about this morning called Black wales I dont feel well this morning took some pills great sea sickness still I not any of it yet

10           Tuesday NW fair wind find day, going 8 knot an hour sow no land since yesderday self quite well

11           Wednsday do.do. heavy rain great sea deal of sickness great many large fish jumping about in large numbers

12           Thirsday find little wind (NW) this will be long voyage only one week going 8 nots hour we are in the Bay of Biskey this Bay is 400 miles long the sgip rowled very much last neight heard to stay in bed

13           Friday NNW good breeze 700 miles from Lpool we have plenty of every thing to eats here plum Pudding almost every day plenty of butter we are not short of anything to eat yet

14           Saderday cross wind SSW very point we want to go to blowing hard small rain in the eving we had heavy gale of wind contrarary to our progress ship rowled very much during the neight

15           Sunday wind do. I was thinking much about home all day Seth Evans suffer more see sickness than any one.

16           Munday do. do. ship past close this morning left Lpool 3 day after us called Erl Dorado change wind NW very rough

17           Tuesday W wind we don’t do much progress 3 vessels in seight no land 3 p.m. wind change to our favour

18           Wednsday NW (fair) we had rough neight very few on board slept any last neight going 10 nots an our

19           Thirsday do. do. find day, 5 degrees hotter than yesterday all passengers done with sea sickness Seth Evans gest begin to eat little today we are going to warmer climate every day fast progress 10 nots

20           Friday NW wind nothing Particular today nothing to be seen except watter and great many flying fish

21           Saderday do. do. from 7 to 8 nots we are on the coast of Affrica nothing Particular my health is good so far thank God

22           Sunday E wind going 9 nots an hour churge service in the usual form 10 a.m. also 6 p.m.

23          Munday do. do. do. very hot we are on mediterania sea but could not seen the land

24           Tuesday NE wind we are making fast progress every day this will be a long voyage only 3 week yet such missarable life We are spend the day some in laying on deck other play cards other reading other in bed

25           Wednsday NE wind went 240 miles in 24 hours from 12 yesterday untill 12 today

26           Thirsday N by E wind we are geting hot bread every morning for breakfast we are giving 2/0 each to beaker for beak our allowance of flour the size of wickan very morning

27           Friday (this part of the diary is missing, the paper having been torn.)

28           Saderday (Partly missing) do. do. 160 since yesterday … degree in the shade 120 in the sun

29           Sunday do. do. churge service was red as usual 10 a.m. 2 clock p.m. very heavy storm came quite cam with us and the sea rowled towards us like mountains but we havenot much wind but very heavy rain wind went in another derection rain came down in abundance till neight

30           Munday NW by W wind we dont do much progress I feel very ill in bed all day Dockdor gave me some midson my stomach is bad great many complain all by hot whether watter is get bad I bought filter in Lpool and it will make the watter clean and good run it through spoong down to stone Jar make it good only for this I dont know how to manage this watter cost 8/0 when it is 12 clock here it is 2 clock there after cross the Line it will get back again

31           Tuesday NW by W good breeze and it is very acceptable this hot whether the wind is quite hot all neight the majority of passengers are sleep ond deck all neight my window is open all neight close to my face

September 1852

1             Wednsday no wind thank God I am all right again Capt expect see ship for England take letters for us

2             Thirsday do. caam we had boat down 5 of us in it on the middle of the ocean no wind child was born this morning

3             Friday E wind we met with ship to take our letters about 2 clock we send very large bag to her with our boat

4             Saderday W by N nice breeze we have not do no progress this week 5 clock this p.m. we had awful heavy rain over by 9

5             Sunday W wind good breeze much coulder after rain churge service was red in the useal maner after dinner I sow 200 large fish all in one lot jumping on top of the watter another child born this morning boy this is the second both doing well also their mothers

6             Munday SW wind good breeze 3 ship in seight one came long side 2 Capt spok together see was from Glasgow sail 4 day before us see is bound to Singlepough (I hope the reader will excuse this writing ship saking)

7             Tuesday W wind good stiff breeze rather against us all well on board four ship in seight

8             Wednsday do. little progress we enjoy ourself smoking reading playing cards difrent play other in bed (child 16 month old deid he was ill all the time

9             Thirsday SW wind contrarary to our progress 6 a.m. funeral took place service was red as useal the little corpse was sowed up in peace of canvace about 20 lb weight with it the body was place on piece of plank one end rest ond the side of the vessel and two of the sailers hould yp the other end when the service was red and said the proper word the sailer lift up one end of the plank untill the corpse drop down to his watter grave nobody was allowed to look over see it droped (bad place to write the vessel is leking very much)

10           Friday SW no good what long missarable voyage this will be

11           Saderday do. we are not much nearer the line this last week few ships in seight

12           Sunday S by W good breeze the whether is much colder one of the children was born on board was chrissen after the morning service called Jane

13           Munday SE what they call trade wind the same all year round in this part going 8 nots ……. (missing) …… no alteration in the wind this last nine or ten days we are going 8 to 9 miles an hour in the right direction blowing in this part whole year from gest the same place E by S we are 25 degrees south from the line we have made good passage to here we did not get but very little rain since we left I have nothing particular to write no ship in seight for some day first thing I sow last Sunday morning some man kiling pig for diner for few of us second two strong chaps fitting the Capt went to them and put the two in iron and put them in dark place together

23           Thirsday the trade wind is done we dont do much progress I suppose the corn is all inn stags with you by this time and me here doing nothing I am well sadisfy here now too (much more than I was at first we are all in good health thank God and plenty to eat hot bread for break wast every morning 5 clock this eving we had change of wind from E to S little rain whether beging to get cold no ship in seight

24          Friday S wind we have not done much progress one ship in seight we have not consume one third of our allowance since we start untill this week whether is getting cold we are eating much more now our allowance is as follow Biskeit 3½ we dont eat but very little yet of them we are getting plenty of Beef & Pork good flour 3½ we are getting it beaked one roul every morning that what it will run 1 lb sugar that is plenty 10½ oz. Butter that has run short this week 3½ lb rice that is plentiful preserve botatoes we have plenty of them few of us likes them 1 lb raisins pickils & settle we are doing well consider there is (32) 40 of us eats together (there is increase in the number of passengers sow pig had eight young ones last neight)

25           Saderday E wind little of it duch vessel close to this morning going 3 miles an hour slow work (very find day

26           Sunday do. cam churge prayers as useal at the conclusion the was represented by Mother of beautiful daughter three week old to be Babtized in the name of the father Son and Holy Ghost wich was perform by one of the passengers Parents of the infant were farmer from Yorkshire this is eight Sunday for me to be on board Erl of Darby long time

27           Munday E wind slow sailing one vessel in seight nothing particular our health kept well so far

28           Tuesday South wind going back and forward no progress towards our journey’s end we have the same kind of whether now as you there the same time and every thing we are between South America and the Cape of Good Hope very cold one side and hot other side and we are in the middle of the ocean quite between them

29           Wednsday changable wind slow sailing about 3 clock this morning the vessel rowled once or twice very bad some was threw out of bed great disturbance was among the passengers in short time we had in this cabin cask of flour oats male rice and preserve Botatoes and they were capsize and mixt altogether the vessel rowled far worse when no wind the masts shakes from one side to the other untill the sails tuch the watter

30           Thirsday North wind fast sailing 8 to 9 miles an hour we all enjoy ourself much better when fair wind

October 1852

1             Friday NW wind blowing heavy rain since last neight no ship to be seen

2             Saderday do.do. we are slow 6 nots an hour rain here llanerchymedd fair I would like to be in it hope there good price on cattles this year and that your harvest is large one and safe gathered in (good whether with us

3             Sunday NW wind fast sailing since twelve clock last neight 9 nots no churge service vessel rowled to much we spend the day some in bed others walk on deck

4             Munday NW wind slow sailing. 4 nots beasey day weigh out all our provisions for the week they are affraid …… (missing) …… short of some articles coffee tea and sugar is nearly done our butter is 10½ oz week and it is done some times Friday then do without

5             Tuesday No wind we have yet 7000 miles to go (we are nearly the Cape of Good Hope) we are getting our boxes up on deck once month last time my close were very mouldy I took them all out (it was awful hot day) dry them and clean them when I open my chest today I found every thing all dry and sweet I took out the crock of butter wich I had from mother found it sweet and good when other oblige to through many lb over to the see

6             Wednsday E by N wind fast sailing 10 miles an hour since last neight in the evening better breeze going 12 nots good work

7             Thirsday N wind 11 to 12 nots (Rain) the day is getting longer were we are now this last fortneight sun rise 5 set 7 it has been once 12 clock with us 2 clock with you we are going gest the same as you would go from Amlwch to Holyhead round mania Bridge

8             Friday N wind sailing to the SE by E good breeze 9 nots no vessel in seight the wether is getting very cold were we are now Thermomiter is 54 in the shade 45 out our health is good and every thing coming on well

9             Saderday going right point 10 not 4 week more of this whether will take us to our Journeys end (I feel myself better than since on board

10           Sunday fare wind going about 240 miles every day now churge at 10 clock and 3 after the last funeral took place the first child was born of board 6 week ago therefore commit his body to the deep (this was the second)

11           Munday fare wind (NW) 8½ miles an hour nothing particular great many strange birds flying after the ship all day like flys hot whether follow every were some as large as geese called albert ross they are catch them with lines and shot great many

12          Tuesday no wind I have been read in the book of Job about Leviathan I never sow untill this morning sow it out of the watteras big as this vessel I never sow such things before I have seen large fish but nothing to this one

13           Wednsday NE wind heavy rain and strong breeze rough one ship in seight from London to Australia out 80 days 76

14           Thirsday little wind little progress (rain all day) very unconfortable here when rains all stop in such small place and they are playing cards from morning till neight one chap wing £5:12 once and in three days he lost them and 3£ with them

15           Friday very rough and heavy rain fare 10 nots the sea is sometimes as high as the top of the mast

16           Saderday find day little wind the sea is rough since yerderday the vessel rowled very much with the swell

17           Sunday find day little wind contrarary to our progress we have spend the day as useal service 10 clock

18           Munday the roughest day we had since we start wind and rain in torance untill 12 neight wind dropt then this little place was full all day playing cards and it was my day to get out week provissions in flour bread tea coffee sugar rice mustard paper veniger the ship shake untill some fell down lost all their tricle we have great many things to come in Beef pork suet salt and etc I had rough day to get all these in

19           Tuesday find day going 6 to 7 not we have our beds out drying today after yesterday we had rough neight last neight few went to bed but I went the same time 8 clock every neight and there is from 15 to 20 long side of my bed playing cards every neight and all shouting as hard as ever they could now I am use to them sleep derectly they don’t give over untill 12 clock, then some of them will sing untill 2 or three (Blagarnunnhu) we had the heavyest rain that I ever sow (not like rain but like river come down) The vessel is rowled very much bad to write

20           Wednsday SW wind hard breeze 9 to 10 not 8½ knots for 24 hours will make 200 miles 11 weeks since we left Lpool a long time to be in such place as this although I like every thing better than the peoble many of them would kill man for few shillings I believe that I am 15 lb heavier this last month and as healthy as ever eating large soup plate of oat meal porage with tricle first thing every morning and it is healthy too