Family History 1.720

 
 

(Shipboard diary of my great-grandfather, Charles Gaze, aged 27)

14th January 1860

Very fine, warm and calm, but in our right course.

By order from Captain the water 10 gals per 100 required by Passenger Act to be given to the cook for cooking purposes, from this time not to be allowed. A sheep killed.

15th

Ground rice boiled for breakfast. Sunday, very fine and calm as before.

Half past 10 a.m. Church Prayers on poop.    

 

Lat. 33-34S Long 24W    

4 p.m. Dissenters Service. Address from Hebrews 11.8v Abraham an emigrant. Several sacred pieces sung in the evening on the poop.

 

A heavy dew falls every night after sunset.

 

16th

Very fine, warm and calm.

I helped my wife wash some clothes and hung them out to dry.

An albatross seen about the same as the last.

All of us pretty well today,

Lat 34-8S Long 22-26W.

The Main Sail replaced an old one having been used in its place, since we entered the Tropics.

Several large Sperm Whales seen today.

A ship in sight Sailing from West to East but a long distance off us.

Much cooler at night a breeze spring­ing up.

(My note: Here is a map of the oceans, with the track of the voyage marked at roughly weekly intervals. They left dock in London on 15 November, and arrived in the Waitemata Harbour on 22 March.)