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N. by E. At 5 N. by W. to midnight ; ship trying to the N. E. by E. 

 but making little or no way. 



2\st September — Constant hard gales, and thick squally weather 

 continue with a high confused sea. 2 a. m. wind N.N.W. At 3 N. W. 

 b N. At 9, N. W. by W., 1 1 a. m. N. W. hove to under close reefed main 

 top-sail, lat. 15° 51' N., longitude 115° 27' E, Bombay Castle in 

 company, p. m. wind W. N. W. hard squalls, thick weather, and rain 

 throughout till midnight. 



22d September — 1 a. m. Wind West. At Noon S. W. by S. lat. 

 16° 17' N., longitude 116° 23' E. p. m. wind S. W. by S. At 5 p. m. 

 wind South, bore up. At 7 p- m. wind S. W. At midnight S. S. W. 

 weather moderating since noon. 



23d September. — Monsoon weather ; wind from S. to S. S. W., ship 

 going four and five knots to the N. by W. Noon, lat. obs. 17° 01' 

 North, longitude 114° 4' E.; from which time fine weather to China. 



No. 5. — Abridged Log of the II. C. #. Bombay Castle, Capt. Archi- 

 bald Hamilton ; reduced to civil time. 



In this ship's log there are no latitudes or longitudes marked, but 

 as she was for the first part of the storm within a few miles of the 

 Camden, we may thus take it as corroborative of that vessel's well, 

 kept record. The ships seem to have been driven to the Southward, 

 (they were bound to China it will be remembered), by the continuance 

 of a northerly wind, which indeed is not uncommon at this season, 

 and may be the first struggles of that part of the trade wind which 

 constitutes the N. E. monsoon, to overcome the South-westerly one ; 

 and thus, if we admit mere dynamical causes to originate these vorticse, 

 giving the first impulse to them, for by a memorandum in the log, 

 they were on the 19M September, in latitude 16° 2'. The Camden's 

 log giving 15° 42' for the observation of the 26th. 



20th September. — p. m. Wind N. N. E. strong gale and cloudy to 

 midnight, ship under close reefed top-sails. 



21$; September — 3 a.m. N. N. W. Noon N.W. b N. preparing for 

 bad weather, blowing very hard with violent squalls and heavy head 

 sea. At 4 p. m. lying to under mizen stay-sail. At 6, wind NW. 



