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the masts, and the topmasts‘and foremast went over the side At6 p.m. the extreme 
fury of the tempest ceased, leaving a prodigious sea, « the ship lay during the night a 
helpless wreck.* ' lt 
The position at noon of the 4th, by good observations, was lat. 23° 57’, lon. 89° 30', near 
the Bank of Campeche.—(Journal of Capt. FostER.) 
6. ue Claremont, from Laguna, on the 3d and 4th of October, lat. 25°, lon. 87°, had 
a severe gale of wind from S. E. to S. W.—(Marine Report. [The veering of the wind 
in this case from the eastern to the southern d western quarter, the course of the storm 
being northeastward, shows this vessel to have been on the right of the line pursued by 
the axis of the gale. The opposite course and suddenness of the wind’s changes with the 
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pursued by its axis; the latter passing between the two vessels. 
. Brig Jena was wrecked in the hurricane on the 4th of October, in lat. 25° 35/, 
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8, Barque Helen Maria encountered the gale of the 4th-5th of October, off the Balize, 
9, Brig Kanhawa, from New Orleans, on the 4th and 5th of October, lat. 28°, lon. 86° 
45’, experienced a violent hurricane from the east; was hove on her beam ends, lost 
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spars, &c.—( Marine Repor 
It may be perceived that this storm advanced but slowly, par- 
rance upon the Gulf of Mexico. Capt. 
ibama, for New Orleans, was hence enabled. 
to avail himself of the strong southeasterly winds pertaining to 
the right front of the storm, in making a rapid passage from near 
the Tortugas to within forty miles of the bar of the Mississippi, 
where he hove the :% to, under the main-topsail only, headed. 
to the southward. His statement continues as follows. 
10. At sunset on the 4th, t 1e wind continued increasing, the sea running high, and the 
sled to expect a hurricane, and made every thing doubly 
secure. e wind had veered to about east, and continued increasing, sounding 
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but after getting all prepared, I looked at the barometer again and saw it was rising, and 
iscovering at the same time that the wind had veered northwardly, I ordered the men to 
turn in for sleep; telling the mates they would want close-reefed sail on the ship by 
8 a. m., which was the case as it proved. Was about 80 miles from the Balize at the close 
of the gale.t : 
Capt. BuNKER states that the ships which were nearer the north shore did not have the 
ucalion of Boston carried double reefs till midnight, in 
order to weather the south point of the delta of the Mississippi. 
11. Ship Norfolk for New Orleans took the gale about 200 miles from the Balize, lat. 
27°, lon. 86° 20/7] On the 3d the ship was hove to under bare poles A the 
4th was hove on her beam ends, and cut away the mainmast. Lost all the sails but one, 
with most of the spars, and suffered other e. 
t, Foster states that the carcasses of sea and Jand birds, in great numbers, were floatin: 
in the sea the day after the hurricane. These last could not have come frora land to the east- 
ward or even northward of the ship, as the winds then prevailed; but must have been blown 
from southern Mexico or Yucatan by a gale turning south and east around its axis. 
+ When Capt. B. hove the ship to, he was uncertain of his latitude, having bad no observa- 
tions for two days. ty 
