The Count came on board to take us on shore with him so we left our trunks on board and
having told the Captain to let us know when the wind became favourable, we return’d on
shore.
“26th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0002-0020. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 173.]