Lady Penrhyn

… many of the women were wash’d out of their births by the seas … This night was a dreadful one indeed, the sea was mountains high, sometimes it seem’d as if the ship was going over. The chicken coops were on the round house & fasten’d very securely … gave way & came with such violence against the side as to drive the goat house all in pieces & lamed the goat & kidd –

… the sea ran so very high & we ship’d such heavy seas so often as made it absolutely necessary to clap the close hatches over the convicts otherwise the ship wd. have been in danger of being sunk … just as we had dined, a most tremendous sea broke in at the weather Scuttle of the great Cabin & ran wt. a great stream all across the cabin, & as the door of my cabin happen’d not to be quite close shut the water half fil it; the sheets & blankets being all on a flow. … No sleep all this night.