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able. Her masts and sails, which in such a warfare of the 

 elements she might so readily have had carried away, were 

 all found to be uninjured, and only a few plates of her 

 copper sheeting had been loosened by the fury of the waves, 

 while those still clinging to the ship had been rolled up like 

 so much paper, by the tremendous pitching of the good ship. 

 The quarter gallery too, which when the frigate was running 

 before the wind was exposed to considerable danger, had 

 sustained but little damage. Such unfortunately was not 

 the case with a small menagerie of rare birds and monkeys, 

 which had been placed in cages carefully covered with linen 

 in this, ordinarily the most sheltered, part of the vessel. The 

 covering had been torn away by the hurricane, and the wind 

 had so tossed the poor things about, that all their feathers 

 were knocked off, and they presented a most pitiable appear- 

 ance. The quadrupeds too, whose cries and lowings during 

 the storm had already testified to their misery, were found 

 to have suffered severely. Two oxen and several sheep 

 died on the 19th. All the surviving animals lost flesh ter- 

 ribly during 48 hours, while those that had been the wildest 

 and most untameable were now quite tame and docile. 



An analysis of the phenomena observed during the contin- 

 uation of the ci/clone, shows that on the 18th it formed its 

 vortex, being then about opposite the rather lofty and 

 tolerable-sized island of Dkinawasmia of the Loo-Choo 

 group, which must have occasioned an alteration in the direc- 

 tion of the wind. Owing in part to the influence of the N.E. 



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