610 A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 127. 



we knew by his top-light, bore E. S. E. a quarter of a mile, and sud- 

 denly disappeared. The sea during the height of the gale, (its surface 

 being such a continued spray), it was impossible to face ; it searched 

 through the weather ports, although well lined and secured; and in 

 the working of the ship through the weather seams, to such a degree, 

 as was incredible. Notwithstanding the force of the wind, the sea 

 was not near so high as in common gales of wind off the Cape of Good 

 Hope, which I attribute to the partiality of the gale with regard to 

 its extent, but perhaps to the extreme violence of the wind preventing 

 the sea from forming a head. Bar. 29° 00'. Ther. 76°. 



In this gale (we afterwards learned) the Boddam was totally dis- 

 masted, lost her bowsprit and rudder, and was towed into Macao 

 road by the Crescent packet, where at anchor, this ship lost her fore- 

 mast and bowsprit also. Latitude by account 22° 9' North, Lon- 

 gitude 117° 3' East. 



Tuesday, 20th. — Wind from S. by E. to S.E. by S., gradually abating 

 to a moderate breeze, with fine weather at noon, when the latitude 

 was observed 22° 27' N., and longitude by chronometer 117° 26' E. 



For the foregoing I am indebted to Captain Biden, and unfor- 

 tunately amongst the logs from the India House, those relating to 

 this storm are omitted, though the logs relating to two of the other 

 storms experienced by the Buccleugh and fleet in the Northern Pacific 

 have been sent me, and will appear in a memoir on the storms 

 of that ocean. The only other record I have is a notice from 

 memory from Mr. Baynes of Falmouth,* from which it appears, that 

 the Boddam and Chester suffered severely in it, the former vessel 

 being dismasted, with also the loss of her rudder. We have then 

 to consider from this notice alone, what may probably have been 

 the track of the storm. 



Mr. Redfield in quoting this storm, seems to think that the true 

 storm set in at North. I should scarcely think so from the terms 

 of the log, and am inclined to take its commencement from the N. E. 

 by N. wind, at seven p. m. when the ship drifting across the track of the 

 storm within, a short distance of its centre, will account for its veering, 

 taking the track to be about an East and West one. 



* India House Memoranda. 



