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as lost. On the 31st July, at 10 a.m., the Alexander, Captain Wilson, 

 from Macao to Singapore, was wrecked in latitude 10° 28', longi- 

 tude 111° 27' E. No lives lost, but no property saved. The Ha- 

 moody is said to have reached Manilla.* 



TRACK No. XXV. 



Tyfoons of the Ariel and Vansittart, 16th to 22d Nov. 1837- 



I have been favoured by Capt. Burt, with the Log of the Ariel, 

 of which the following is an abstract reduced to civil time. 



\5th November, 1837 The Barque Ariel, bound to China, was 



at noon in latitude 15° 1' N., longitude per chronometer 116° 15' 

 E. with fresh gales from N. N. E., hazy weather and heavy sea on ; 

 having increased to this from a steady breeze at midnight of the 14th, 

 vessel standing to the EbS. going 7 and 8 knots, p. m. wind marked 

 N. E. and to 10 p. m. standing to the East; gale increasing rapidly to 

 midnight. At 10, wore to the Northward. 



\6th November. — Wind N.E. to noon ; heavy cross sea running very 

 high. At 8, wore to the East, lost mizen-topmast. Noon hard gales N., 

 mountainous sea, latitude observation 15° 8' N., longitude 116° 45'. 

 Wind about N.N.E.,p. m. wind N.N.E. to midnight. 



17^ November. — Gale still increasing and "every appearance of a 

 dreadful tyfoon. Barometer still high at 30.10, and Sympiesometer as 

 usual. Daylight wind hauled to the North in a tremendous squall ; 

 10, blowing awfully hard, and sea beyond description. Noon tyfoon 

 blowing dreadfully, wind N. W. and sea like pyramids all round, 

 could not look to windward, for the wind, rain, and sea blowing on 

 board ; the ship frequently lurching half the main rigging, and often- 

 times the bowsprit under water. Barometer fell to 29.80. p. m. wind 

 West, a most dreadful tyfoon blowing, ship in a most perilous situ- 

 ation. At 2, wind N. W., and then for two hours till 4 p. m. I 

 really cannot describe the scene; the ship rising with difficulty to 

 several of the lurches got all ready to cut away the masts. At 4 



* These are too vague to mark any track from, but they may serve as memoranda. 

 I shall be glad to receive the logs of any vessels which may have experienced this 

 storm. 



