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23rd September. — a. m. very hard gales with severe gusts of wind 

 and rain, veering away cable. 



At 2 a.m. the wind marked E. N. E. At 3, blowing very hard, cut 

 the cable and hove to (head to the S. E.) under bare poles, p. m. 

 wind East, strong gales with heavy squalls Southerly. More moderate 

 from 3 p. m. At 5 p. m. St. John's bearing W. N. W. three or four 

 leagues, in twenty fathom water. 



24tk September. — At 8 a. m. St. John's bearing N. W. six or seven 

 leagues; Cow Cock N. E. by N., wind E. by S. making sail. The 

 Alfred at daylight S. by E. five miles. 



No. 3. — Abridged hog of H. C. S. Alfred ; reduced to civil time. 



At noon 22nd September, had the Grand Ladrone bearing W. \ S. 

 Gap Rock South, and Asses' Ears due East. Observed that the swell 

 was rising from the Eastward. Wind marked North. At noon 

 working in to the anchorage ; p. m. increasing breeze and cloudy wea- 

 ther, with a long swell from the East. At 4 p. m. anchored with 

 Grand Ladrone bearing S.; Gap Rock S. by E.; Asses' Ears S. 65° E. 

 making all snug. At 1 1 p. m. wind increased to hard gale N. N. E. 

 At midnight drove. 



23rd September. — Gale still freshening, and ship driving at the 

 rate of 2\ knots per hour, cut and stood to sea, hove to at 2 a. m. Wind 

 at N. E. and at 4 at E. N. E., heavy gale with hard squalls and a 

 confused sea at noon. At 2 p. m. E. S. E. At 4 made some sail. At 7 

 p. m. E. S. E. 



2\th September. — Royal George at daylight N. by W. Wind 

 about E. S. E. and moderating. 



No. 4. — Abridged Log of the Earl Camden, Captain Dance; reduced 



to civil time. 



Wednesday, 20th Seple?tiber.— Noon lat. 15° 42' N., longitude 113° 

 41', hard gales with squally weather, wind N. N. E. at 1 p.m. At 3 



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