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under water. The dead lights were beaten in, partly by the violence 

 of the sea, so that the deck and cabins were covered with water, and 

 she seemed to be going bodily down. With the utmost difficulty, 

 owing to the fury of the blast, and the frightful sea that was breaking 

 over her, the masts were at last cut away, and it appeared that no- 

 thing but their fortunately all going nearly at the same time could in 

 so critical a moment have saved the vessel. Being now clear of her 

 masts she gradually righted, and fortunately for all on board, kept 

 quite tight during the strength of the gale. Captain Mclntyre having 

 rigged jury-masts, now endeavoured to make Manilla as the nearest 

 port, continuing in that direction until the 23d November, when 

 finding it impracticable to make head against the monsoon in the 

 state to which the ship's rigging had been reduced, he bore up for this 

 port. — Free Press, Dec. 9. 



It appears from these documents that the Ariel was bringing with 

 her a heavy monsoon gale, or it may have been ran into the outskirts 

 of the Ardaseer's tyfoon, since her position at noon on the 17th was 

 about 330 miles N. E.b.N. of that of the Ardaseer on the 16th, and in 

 the 24 hours, the storm might have easily travelled a great part of 

 this distance, though it seems to have been spent, or that the Ariel. 

 ran so rapidly to the South, making 2^ degrees of Southing, between 

 the 17th and 18th, that she escaped it altogether. I am, however, 

 more inclined to think, it was not the storm which she felt, for she 

 would in that case have had the wind more Easterly of North if it 

 passed to the South, and more Westerly of North if it passed to the 

 North of her. Could we have obtained any intermediate logs, we 

 might perhaps have found here some evidence of one of these storms, 

 confounding itself with the regular monsoon. 



With respect to the track of the Ardaseer's tyfoon, we cannot even 

 make a conjectural one from these accounts. All that we can be sure 

 of, is, that its centre must have been very near to her when she had 

 drifted into, say latitude 14° 20' or 14° 10', which in this longitude is 

 not far from our Track No. XL, but here our present knowledge of 

 this storm, which was experienced by at least three, if not four, vessels 

 belonging to the port of Calcutta, ceases. 



The iron steamer Medusa on the 13th and 14th November, encoun- 

 tered a severe gale from the N. E. off the Grand Ladrone, which drove 



