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in the chart, and the second seems very probably to have been also a 

 storm travelling towards the ship, but from which she escaped by run- 

 ning to the Northward so quickly. 



1828. 



Extract from the Log of the H. C. S. Marquis of Camden, towards 



China, reduced to civil time. 



Document from Captain Wylie. 



2d Oct. 1828.— At noon in latitude 19° 9' N., longitude 116° 26' 

 E., cloudy weather ; increasing breeze from the N. E. with squalls of 

 rain at times. Ship standing to the North and N. N. E.. p. m., and to 

 midnight variable light airs, and calms with heavy rain. 



3d October — At half past 12, breeze increasing to a gale at N. E., 

 hove to under main stay-sail, hard squalls and heavy rain. No obser- 

 vation. The gale still continuing ; 3, wore ship, wind about N. E. 

 At midnight wind decreasing. 



4th October. — a. m. moderating and veering to the Eastward. At 

 noon latitude 17° 17', longitude 115° 13'. 



Again on the ^th October — The Marquis Camden was at noon 

 in latitude 19° 7' N., longitude 115° 43' E., blowing hard in heavy 

 squalls and rain; increasing p. m. to a gale at N. E., with a head sea 

 reducing her to close reefed top-sails. 



Sth October. — By noon the wind had veered to N. W., heavy rain 

 and high sea continuing, wind being about N. by E. at 1 a. m., and 

 North or N. by W. at 7. It is marked at N. W. at 11. Latitude about 

 18° 10', longitude 116° 40' at noon. p. m. a gale from N. W. ship strik- 

 ing topgallant-masts. 



9th October. — From midnight gale continuing, but at daylight mo- 

 derating a little. Noon latitude 18° 47', longitude 117° 52'. E. p. m. 

 gale from N. W. continuing with a heavy sea throughout. 



\0th October — Wind gradually veering back to N. E. at noon, when 

 in latitude 19° 21' N. and latitude 118° 22' E. and continuing so, with 

 squally unsettled weather, till the 13th, when the land was made. 



There are no Barometrical observations with this log, and it is there- 

 fore very uncertain if these storms were rotatory ones, or, though so 

 early in the season, the effect of the monsoon's setting in heavily, 



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