Sunday, November 24th

Our fears of an unquiet night were not realized—we had a tolerably easy voyage during it. Today service in the cuddy and a sermon, in which Mr Kingdon took occasion to allude to the indifferent attendance at daily morning and evening prayers. This is caused, in my opinion, by the length of the church service which indisposes people to submit to constrained attitudes for the time it lasts during the rolling and pitching. Family prayers would have always been preferred and would have been better, if not well attended. Latitude page 70at noon 48.39 S., Longitude 99.10 E. Distance run 208 miles S.E. by E. Calculations are being made closer and closer every day. Some sanguine arithmeticians give us only fifteen days more, and if our next fortnight's run presents the average of this week, we shall at any rate, be near Stewart's Island.