Daily entries covering the voyage’s first Antarctic sweep. Alongside observations, Bayly records sightings of penguins, porpoises, whales and ‘islands of ice’. As the weather worsened, he notes that on 8 December the Adventure repeatedly fired two guns as signals to the Resolution, in order to keep company. An entry for 24 December records that the ship had outrun its reckoning, but there appeared to be no current to explain it. Another for 28 December records that they hoisted out the cutter to test the current and also let a thermometer down to 160 fathoms [RGO 14/56: 38r]. The entry for 31 December also records problems with their half-minute glass [RGO 14/56: 39r].