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centre at one time. Many icebergs were passed in latitude 57", 

 longitude 160°. 



18th May, 1894. — Westerly winds nearly all the way. 

 The ship was for a time in the rear part of one cyclone, 

 and was then overtaken by another, the centre of which 

 passed over her with barometer down to 2864°, in latitude 

 66°. These cyclones travelled faster than the ship, which was 

 the " Aorangi," doing probably 14 to 15 knots an hour. Ice- 

 bergs were passed in latitude 55^°, longitude 104^°. 



4th October, 1894. — Westerly winds all the way, in the 

 south edge of an anticyclone at first, then in northerly part of 

 a cyclone which travelled rather faster than the ship. 



27th March, 1896. — For about seven hundred and fifty 

 miles east of the Bluff the voyage was in the northerly part of 

 ■ an anticyclone, which was much displaced, probably south- 

 wards ; then the ship overtook a cyclone moving north- 

 easterly slower than the ship, which passed into its southern 

 part, with easterly winds and rising barometer, near the 

 Horn. 



6th January, 1897. — The ship, on leaving New Zealand, 

 experienced gales from north-east to north-west and south- 

 west, with high barometer — probably a detached " high," 

 influenced by "lows" north and south of it. Then the ship 

 ran into the northern part of a cyclone, the centre of which, 

 with winds in all directions and barometer down to 28-51°, 

 was felt in latitude 53f ° ; but the ship travelled at nearly the 

 same rate as the storm, and in its northern part. 



28th August, 1897. — It is difficult to interpret the great 

 fluctuations in the usual positions of the high and low belts 

 observed in this voyage. The anticyclone in the usual 

 cyclone belt noted in the first part of the voyage was a 

 northern "high" forced southwards by a tropical "low," as 

 we learn from the New Zealand records. The second 

 "high" noted, nearer the Horn, was more probably a 

 southern anticyclone displaced somewhat northwards. The 

 cyclones felt moved, apparently, faster than the ship, and in 

 diagonal courses. 



25th February, 1898. — The voyage was made in the 

 northern part of a cyclone which travelled at the same rate 

 as the ship. Westerly winds all the way. 



14th September, 1898. — The first part of the voyage was 

 in the southern part of a cyclone, the latter part in the 

 northern part of an anticyclone, latitude 55°, and which latter 

 must have belonged to the southern belt of "highs." Both 

 the cyclone and the anticyclone were somewhat displaced 

 northwards. 



[Editor's Note. — The extracts from the logs were too voluminous for 

 publication in this volume.] 



