A Table shewing the Order how the Seamen may keep his Accompts, whereby he may at all times distinctly examine his former practises, for in every 24 hours, which is from noon to noon, he doth not only lay down his Latitude, which the Corse and Leagues, but also how the Wind hath blown in the same time.
The first Colume is the months and dayes of the same; the second is the observed Altitude, the third is the Horizontal Corse or motion of the Ship, the fourth the number of Leagues that the Ship hath sayled, the fifth is a space wherein must be noted, by what Wind those things have been performed: and the next great space is to lay down any brief Discourse for your memory.

Month, and dayes of the month Latitude Corse Leagues Wind The 13th of March, Cape Augujiiu in Brasil being 16 leagues East of me, I begin this accompt
  Deg Min        
March 24
7 30 NNE 25 East The Compasse varied 9 degrees, the South points westward
25
5 44 NbE 30 EbN
26
4 1 NbE 35 EbN
27
2 49 N 24 EbN Compasse varied 8 degrees, the South points westward
28
1 31 NE 26 EbN
29
1 4 NNW 9 NE
31
0 0 NbW 21 ENE Compasse varied 6 deg 40min, the South points westward
Aprill 4
0 39 NWbN 15 NE
7
1 53 NNW 28 NE Observation of the Pole Arctick above the horizon
9
3 5 NWbN 20 NEbE
10
4 5 NWbN 22 NE  
11
4 45 NW 18 NEbN  
12
5 16 NW 14 NEbN Compasse varied 6degrees, the north points Eastward.
13
6 11 NWbN 23 NE
14
7 16 NWbN 24 NE