1842.] A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. 609 



gale (called a Tyfoon in their logs) which began at North, veered to 

 N. E. and N. N. E. and moderated again at North, veering when 

 fine, to N. N. W. It is barely possible that this might have been 

 a vortex travelling from the N. N. E. to the S. S. W. between the 

 ships, and the Island of Luzon ; but I should be more inclined, at 

 that season of the year, to consider it as what I have in my former 

 memoirs styled a monsoon gale, i. e. the monsoon of the season rising 

 to the height of a severe gale. Of this the reader will judge for 

 himself. There is nothing in the data worth recording beyond the 

 drift of the ships, and the steadiness of the wind during the storm, 

 which was however so severe, that the Royal Charlotte lost her tiller, 

 and the other ships several sails, &c. 



TRACK No. II, 1797. 



Narrative from Captain Lynns 's Star Tables. 



The Duke of Buccleugh, (burden 1182 tons), sailed from China 

 (Macao roads), on the 15th June 1797, in company with His Majesty's 

 ship Swift, Captain Hay ward, and a fleet of sixteen ships. 



Sunday the \%th June. — Moderate winds from S. S. E. to E. S. E., 

 E., E.N.E., N.E. and North at noon, with hazy weather throughout. 

 Latitude observed 21° 58' N.; longitude per chronometer 116° 05' E. 

 Barometer 29° 15'. Thermometer 83°. 



Monday, l$th June. — Commenced with increasing northerly wind 

 and hazy weather ; at 4 p. m. the wind increasing rapidly. In first 

 and second reefs, handed the main-sail, struck the royal masts, and 

 down top-gallant yards. At 7 F- m. wind N. E. by N., increasing to 

 a heavy gale, handed the top-sails. From 9 p. m. till midnight, the 

 wind veering from N. E. by N. to North, N. W. to West, S. W. and 

 South, increasing gradually the whole time, when its force was tre- 

 mendous, and such as no sail, I conceive, could have endured : the 

 foresail at this time blew out of the bolt-rope to atoms, and the ship 

 tried under bare poles until day-break, when the wind having veered 

 to the eastward of South, began to abate. No ship in sight since 3 a. m. 

 when the Commodore, with whom we had been scudding, and whom 



