i remember joe apollo been for me and said what? no questions from the reporter? and he said i understand, no one speaks here. one of the first things i learned about dudley's log books which surprised me is they are very easy to read. they are perfectly legible. cannot good scholar. spelling was not standardized. i believe he was an educated man but he spelled phonetically. i learned to sound out words the way he would have sounded them out and that would help me find the modern day spelling and locations to which he was referring. he would record the weather for instance, squalls of snow, mall breezes, tumbling c, small wind and thick weather. day-by-day and hourly, every two hours throughout the day he is recording what is going on with the weather, the wind, how they are managing, how fast they're going, how far they have come. this is part of the will of the log itself. is to keep track, to keep a record of the voyage. part of the role of books such as these was so there would be a record in case a lawsuit later arose from the voyage and the person, the comma