Handwriting Help and Spelling

[AvastMH]

Each log writer is likely to have a peculiar writing style and spelling system. In the most exaggerated cases the spelling of one word may vary even in the entry for one day.
If you find oddities please do post them here to help other viewers working with this project.

Help with images
If you want to query/show some text please supply the page reference (the reference changes as you view the middle of a page), and an image of the text would also be helpful. Help for manipulating/posting images can be found in Guide to posting links and images. If you have any problems with imaging please ask for help below.

Remember - Always TYPE WHAT YOU SEE, just as they wrote it. If you are unsure of a word, you can post a question to this page and ask for help. If just one letter of a word is not readable you can insert a tilde mark ~ in place of a single letter.

[AvastMH]

The initial section of the logs is very pale. Try reading around August 1891 onwards to get used to the writing if you are struggling with the earlier dates.

[AvastMH]

August 11th 1891, he uses the word 'barring' instead of 'bearing' for the direction of St Paul's
https://archive.org/details/logboookofa ... 1/mode/1up