Monday, the 12th May.

Monday, the 12th May, I set saile from St. Margaret's Sound in Orkney being 9 aclock in the morninge our course West and be South, and at 8 o'clock at nyght the hill called Hoys bore west sotherly 11 or 12 leags and the Stack S and by Est esterly: 3 leags and ½ the winde being at Est South est.

Tuesday the 13th beinge for the most part callme and somtymes a freshe gale of wind our course west and be southe ½ a point southerly. This day I came by 2 small Hands, the one of them called the Cleat, and the other is called the Eum. They are distant 4 leages asunder. The course betweene them is S.W. and N.Bst. The Sothernmost is called the Cleat, and is the lesser of the twayne. It is distant from the North-Est part of the Lewis called tha Blinghed2 7 leages and the course betwixt them is northwest and south- est. Also this Blinghed is from the Farro hed of the Heeland of Scotland west and be north ½ a pointe westerly and is distant 17 leages. Also the course between Blinghed and the norwest of the Lewis is west and be south a point westerly; and fayre lowe land smooth wth ut wood. Ther is good ridinge all alongst the shore the winde being off the lande, and in some places very good harbors against all winds : from 8 to 12 at nyght 6 legs west S West.