Sunday May 17th. [Bordeaux]
This Day pleasent Weather the pilot came on Board, u[n]mored Ship & cleared the Decks to go down the River at 11 oClock, weigh’d Anchor & saluted the Castle of Bourdeaux with twenty one Guns, they returned the Salute, fell down the River—as far as Backelyan1 & mored Ship.
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (fMS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. That is, Bacalan, on the Gironde River, about one-half mile below Bordeaux.
