Pucifie and High Southern Latitudes. pats 
under his command, on a passage from Sydney to Tutuilah, 
from which I have made the following extracts :— 
27th Fesruary, 1840.—Wind shifted suddenly from N. 
to S.W., and then to S.E., lat. 31° 45’ S., long. 171° 52’ E. 
28th, Friday.—Increasing breeze from eastward, barometer 
falling gradually. Midnight: under double-reefed topsail and 
foresail—31° 8., 174° 7’ E. | 
29th, Saturday.—Wind increased from 8.E. till 10 a.m., 
when it blew a perfect gale,—yea, a hurricane. Barometer 
28°40; took in all sail, and lay on our side; kept the pumps 
sucking; the water came up the skim into the cabins, be- 
tween decks. The sea stoved the whaleboat, triced up in 
the rigging, and we were forced to cut her away. At noon 
it began to abate a little; at 2 p.m. the gale had subsided: 
sent down topgallant yards with foretopgallant mast. At 
7 P.M, wore round, the wind at S.W.; set maintopsail and 
foresail, steering N.E. Next day a light 8.E. wind. 
I have known it to blow as hard, but never harder—we 
could not look to windward for a second at a time. 
In a work entitled “ Missionary Life in Samoa, 1849,” I 
find a letter by Mr. G. A. Lundie, a passenger by the Camden, 
in which this hurricane is described thus:—‘‘ A few days 
since we met a fearful and long-continued hurricane. Friday 
(28th February) was a day of rough and restless calm ; ba- 
rometer fell gradually. In the evening a fresh breeze set 
in, increasing gradually till 4 a.m. (29th). Lay-to under a 
small sail, to keep the vessel from rolling. 8 A.M., without 
a stitch of canvas, at the mercy of the fierce wind and infu- 
riated waves. The lee bulwarks and nearly half the deck 
under the boiling waters. The day-time, darkness rendered 
more dismal by the burning of a solitary lamp. Boat, bul- 
warks, &c., carried away. At 11% a.m. mercury began to rise. 
At 1 p.m. the rain had ceased, but the wind had not per- 
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