WIND AND WEATHER. 101 



the only approach to any thing like protection from 

 " the skiey influences" that I could discover, was a 

 slight rudely thatched covering, placed on four up- 

 right poles, between three and four feet high. 



Another, of a much superior description, which I 

 visited on the western shore of King's Sound, will 

 be found delineated in that part of my journal to 

 which the narrative belongs. 



February 10. — We remained at this anchorage 

 until the 10th of February, in consequence of a con- 

 tinuance of bad weather ; indeed, the rain during 

 the three first davs of that month was at times of 

 the most monsoon-like character, while the wind, 

 constantly blowing very fresh, kept veering from 

 N. W. to S.W. Every now and then, by way of 

 agreeable variety, a heavy squall would take us from 

 S. S. W., though more commonly from W. S. W. The 

 only certainty that we could calculate upon, was, 

 that at.N.N. \V. the wind would remain when it got 

 there, stationary for a few hours. The thunder 

 and lightning, the former loud and with a long 

 reverberating peal, and the latter of the most in- 



