Daily log entries, except for 21-26 December for which there is a single summarised entry. The Resolution was travelling on a course via Cape Noir to Tierra del Fuego. An entry for 20 December includes a detailed account of the observations taken by Wales on shore, and a description of Tierra del Fuego where they resupplied with wood, wild celery and plentiful wild geese (which enabled a Christmas feast to be had). Wales notes that ‘excepting the Society & Friendly Islands, Terra del Fuego is the most plentiful place we have been’ [RGO 14/58: 144v]. The entry for 3 December also records that the loss of the ensign staff which went overboard [RGO 14/58: 140].