34d Cuba Hurricane of October, 1844. 
to E. N. E., a little more moderate ; 3:30 a. M. wore ship to westward and then kept off 
and ~— mil: 7 a. M. wind E. S. E., shook och all reefs and set top apni prc of 
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fresh breeze from E. to EN. E. As ar) M. set Coy sa ai o* A.M. “took i 
stud. sails ; fresh breezes and flying SJoodai aan lat. 25° 05’, ln 79° 32’; light breeze 
E. by N., weather cone - overcast ; 4. M. wind E. N. E.; 8. m. KE. by N.; ends light 
breezes and flying c 
Oct. 4th, 44. M. oct ‘E. S. E., rainy and squally ; 74. m. wind S. E.; 104 M. wind 
light from S, S. E. and rainy ; noon, lat. 27° 09’, lon. 79° 32/, thick rainy weath ats wind 
E.N.E.; 32 M. took in stud. sails, looking very squally ; 6 p.m. heavy ra ates a ck 
poh wae, Oct. 5th, 1. a. m. wind E. N. E., strong ; 6 a. M. in top gt. sale; 8 
N. E. by E., single-reefed the topsails; rainy — squally ; noon, lat. D. R. age 56’, eon 
79° 43', squally, rainy and winds baffling ; 2 P. wind N. E.; 5p. M.a ob squall from 
N. E.; at 6p. m. hove to, under close-reefed sl head to esawanks blowing a heavy 
le anda ba sea; 9p. M. up E., off ie » By t. 6th, first part more clear, but a con- 
stant gale and very dangerous sea ; 9 A. M. gale hed veered to N. N. W.; noon, lat 
29° 53, lon, 79° 20’, clear weather and lowes gale from N. N. W.; 1 P. M. set single pestle 
il and fore-topmast staysail ; 6 P. M. shook out all reefs and set jib; “nidaiahs calm and 
inks. [Distance from axis line at the height of the gale, 187 miles L.] 
We will now look toward the axis of the storm near the Baha- 
mas, and then follow the accounts which relate to the right side 
of its axis, as far onward as Bermuda on that side. : 
46. Brig Rebecca, ee of this name,] from Cienfuegos, on the 5th of Oet. encoun- 
tered a tremendous gale from S. E., which shifted part of the cargo, he a no other dam- 
age, [Thi and date, with the direction of the wind given, place this brig in the 
yo of Florida, coma near the Salt Key Bank. 
* Brig Saratoga was crossing the. Behera Bank, Oct. 5th, when it began to blow, at 
or 1 A M., from E. S. E. or S. E. by E. At noon saw Orange Key ahead ; split close 
reefed fure-topsail and set reefed foresail, in attempting to weatherit. Kept away and ron 
to the N. of the Key ; ig in passing off the Bank, about 2 p. m. and — a leak ; gale 
increasing from S. E.; wore ship and ‘tora back for the Desks intending to run under 
Orange Key. The hie now cael southward, and the brig having no after alll fell off 
one ce on the Riding Rocks, under fore-topmast staysail and reefed foresail, which 
vere way when she struck, about 3 p. M., [lat.25° 15’, lon, 79° 4/.] on 
= rocks | till about balf past 4 Pe: Me when she had sitisagh over into deeper water. Both 
, when the stays were cut and the masts 
wlew-or over; the wind now southerly ; ; the i leerten over the vessel and sweeping 
off every thing movable. Kept the i aeons ene till about 7 p.m, when the brig sunk in 
a 4! fathoms. At this time the narrator was entangled with the poop deck, se had 
rated from the vessel. He held on ost a short time, was washed off, tac os 
sthuan articles, he thinks, for an hour; was then thrown again in contact ae 
deck, on which was a passenger, and to whieh, by a small rope thevenirs nell 
he kept fast during the night. 
‘Towards morning of the 6th, the gale began to abate, and about 4 a. ™. the wind-spray 
had so far ceased that the atare were vis ible. At sunrise the wind was strong from the 
a: dover the Bunk. By 9 
M. the gale s sO sbeted.a as to » allow them t to 6 wand mp. At noon it was nearly calm, and 
ail about 10 p. m., when een came out froma the eastward. This wind, during 
night of the 6th, drove tee off th Gulf Stream, where they floated at se 
mercy of the waves, without hae or drink, till Oct. 11th, when they were taken off, in 
perishing state, by the barque Zida, in lat. 25° 40’, [(?) 28° 40',| lon. 79° 45’. (Mr. S. was 
sjrasraae gohs Sen ge eats 
* From Mr. Simonson, 2d mate and survivor. 
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