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wind not marked, ship running N.W. 27 miles till 8 p.m. then N.N.W. 

 14 miles till 10, and N. by W. 13 miles till midnight. 



23rd September. — Wind more moderate, able to steer the ship with 

 safety, though rolling very deep. Steering North 66^ miles, till noon, 

 wind not marked at noon, but S. E. at 1 p. m. At noon weather mo- 

 derate, heavy confused sea, rolling gunwales in, Latitude 18° 58' N. 

 longitude by chronometer 117° 45'. Ship having made a course of 

 N. j E. 143 miles since yesterday, p. m, wind S. E. and E. S. E. 

 At 10 p. m. a four knot breeze, the weather having cleared up. 



Noon 24th— Latitude 20° 40' N., longitude 1 17° 41' E. 



No. 7- — Abridged Log of the H. C. S. Coutts, Captain Torin, 

 reduced to civil time, 



20th September — Latitude noted as 16° 57' N. 



2\st September. — p. m. when the log commences, wind marked 

 N. W. by N., hard gales with heavy squalls and a large confused 

 sea. At 10 p. m. wind W. N. W. under fore-sail and mizen stay-sail 

 with head to the North. 



22nd September. — At 5 a. m. wind West, hard squalls. At 6, marked 

 W.S.W. and at 7? S.S.W. In the observations it is said that at 9 a.m. 

 the wind shifted to the S.W. and moderated until near noon, when it 

 came on to blow again very hard with heavy squalls and rain. No 

 observation or account marked in the log. 1 p. m. wind S.S.W. hard 

 gale increasing to a most violent tyfoon with rain, lightning * and a 

 large confused sea. At 4 p.m. the wind S.S.W. weather fine, shrouds 

 giving way, bore away to save the masts, lost fore-topmast; 7 p-m. lost 

 fore. sail and broached to. At 8, main topmast blew away, at 9, lost the 

 main and mizen masts. At 10, wind marked as South, and at 11, 

 S. by E. Lost the bowsprit. 



* The only instance in which lightning is marked in any of the logs of this storm, 

 and therefore probably the only instance in which it occurred ; for seamen rarely 

 omit noticing it, particularly in heavy weather, to which it gives such an awful 

 appearance. 



