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12th October, 1896.— The " highs " and " lows " were nor- 

 mally placed. The ship experienced the effects of the northerly 

 parts of two cyclones, and passed icebergs in latitude 45°, 

 longitude 51° to 76°. 



24th June, 1897. — A normal voyage. High and low belts 

 as usual. 



24th December, 1897. — A normal voyage. High and low 

 belts as usual. 



20th July, 1898. — In this voyage much easterly wind was 

 experienced, and the high and low belts were evidently much 

 displaced. In the early part of the voyage a tropical cyclone 

 seems to have forced the northern belt of anticyclones very far 

 south, nearly joining the counter-trade cyclones through them. 

 In the latter part of the voyage the easterly anticyclone 

 weather seems probably to have been due to a northerly dis- 

 placement of the southern anticyclonic belt. 



5th January, 1899. — The whole voyage was in the northern 

 part of a cyclone, with westerly winds. The centre of the 

 cyclone was nearly reached in latitude 48°, longitude 108°, 

 with barometer down to 28-97°. The positions of the belts 

 were about normal. 



(2.) Voyages from New Zealand to Cape Horn. 



2nd December, 1891. — The voyage for nearly a thousand 

 miles east of Wellington was in an anticyclone, the southern 

 end of which was in about latitude 50°, rather farther south 

 than the normal. The rest of the voyage was in the northern 

 part of the cyclone belt, which was also a Itttle south of the 

 normal. 



17th April, 1892. — The whole voyage was in the northern 

 part of a cyclone which travelled at about the same speed 

 as the ship. The centre was very near in latitude 55°, with 

 barometer 28-67°. Icebergs were passed. No thermometri- 

 cal indications of their vicinity. 



6th July, 1893. — After leaving Lyttelton in the easterly 

 winds of an anticyclone displaced southwards in latitude 47° 

 the ship passed in two days, in latitude 50°, into the northern 

 part of a cyclone, in which she travelled for a fortnight, with 

 westerly winds, when, in latitude 52°, she passed into the 

 southerly part of the cyclone, with easterly winds and rising 

 barometer, in latitudes 54° to 56°, showing that the cyclone 

 was moving in a more northerly track than the ship, and that 

 the northern part of the southern anticyclone belt lay in lati- 

 tude 56°, farther north than usual. 



22nd December, 1893. — The early part of the voyage was 

 in the easterly winds and high barometer of a "high" dis- 

 displaced far south ; the latter part of the voyage was in the 

 northern part of a cyclone, as usual, but very near its 



