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the land, ship's head then about E. N. E. At 11 p. m. fortunately 

 it moderated, and the ship came up to E. Midnight out of sight 

 of land. Tuesday a. m. weather moderating and looking much fairer. 

 At 1-30, made a little sail, at day-light moderate. Barometer and 

 Sympiesometer standing 29.40, it was no lower in the extreme of the 

 gale, continued to stand off E. and by N. At 8 a. m. fine weather. 

 9 a. m. atmosphere hazy, hot and sultry. At noon a light steady breeze 

 from the Southward, found myself thirty-one miles E. of Madras, and 

 seventeen miles to the Southward. 



(Signed) W. F. Knight, 



Chief Officer, Ship Neptune. 



Abstract of Log of the Amelia Mulholland. 



23a? October. — At noon the Barometer stood at 29-70, (never 

 having been higher since lying here but one day, when it rose to 

 29.80,) the weather at this time bearing a threatening aspect, blowing 

 a strong breeze from North ; hauled all the cable on deck, veered to 82 

 fathoms, and saw all clear for slipping ; the Bar. falling towards even- 

 ing to 29.60, the wind increasing towards midnight with heavy squalls 

 and rain to heavy swell setting in from the N. E., making the ship 

 roll heavy. 



24th October. — Commenced with strong winds and rain, with heavy 

 puffs. At 5 a. m. the cable parted at 54 fathoms, the ship canting to the 

 Eastward, made sail and stood out East, the wind increasing to a hard 

 gale. At 10 a. m. the wind Eastering and the sea making fast, the 

 ship laying off E. S. E. At 11, set the fore-top staysail to reach her off 

 as much as possible. At noon it blew a hard gale with a tremendous 

 sea, the Barometer down to 29.30, it having rained without intermis- 

 sion the whole morning. 



Longitude 80° 38' East, latitude 12° 46' N. by account. At 1-30 

 p. m. it blew a hurricane, the ship lurching heavy, shifted the (shot 

 and shell) ballast which gave her a tremendous list, making the ship 

 quite unmanageable, carrying the helm hard a weather, the fore-topmast 

 staysail split to pieces, and finding it impossible to take in the main 

 trysail, sent the hands aloft, and cut it down from the gaff, bent 

 another fore-topmast staysail, the gale moderating towards sun-set. The 



