Saturday, April 5th

A calm and warm day in the morning; afternoon blowing hard from N.E.; evening a gale from N.W. with violent gusts and dust; at night changed suddenly to S.W. with an hour's heavy rain. Hamilton not much changed for better or worse. The yawl went in the morning with shingles and rails, and again in the afternoon with Robert only; he brought back Caughey. They have got the rafters up and the whole frame. Told the shingler to attend Tuesday morning. The Captain of Travancore appeared again today against his men. It ended in a forfeiture of their wages being decreed and his discharging them all. I dined on board with him and, it being rainy and windy, spent the night on board.