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20th February.— Noon latitude 12° 56' S., longitude 60° 53' E. 

 light variable South and SE. airs, hazy sultry weather, and uncommon 

 black squally appearance to the Northward, p. m. wind veered to the 

 Northward, remaining variable and squally to midnight, and between 

 North and NbE. with calms and squalls and thick dark weather. 



2lst February. — To noon increasing breeze NbE. latitude observa- 

 tion 12° 31' S., longitude 62° 00' E. 



Note, for the last two days a current to the West of about 1 mile 

 per hour. 



p. m. Fresh gale increasing to midnight, from North at noon, at 

 5 p. m. NbE. to NbW. and at 12 North again. Midnight increasing 

 gale and squalls. 



22nd February. — a. m. to noon fresh gale and hard squalls, the wind 

 hot and sultry. At noon, latitude 12? 0' S., longitude 64° 3' E. Var. 5° 

 W. course by observation is EbN. % N, 127'. p. m. to midnight 

 fair. 



23d February. — Noon light and fine weather, latitude 11° 26' S. 

 longitude 66° 18' E. 



Abridged Log of the Brig Arpenteur, Captain J. Stillaman, Forwarded 

 by Captain Royer. Reduced to civil time. 



The Arpenteur, with a cargo of bullocks, (from Madagascar ?) hove 

 to at 8 a. m. and at Noon 25th February, it was blowing a hurricane 

 from SE. ; she was then in latitude 18° 50' S., longitude by chronometer 

 53° 40' E. The main topsail blew from the yard, and she was thus 

 under bare poles. The run for the previous twenty-four hours (nau- 

 tical) is not marked, but the wind which had been gradually increasing 

 from noon 24th, from ESE. at 10 p. m. is marked SE. to noon 25th. 

 p. m. The same winds and weather to midnight. 



26th February, a. m. — Wind SSE. ; most of the sails blown from the 



yards, vessel lying to on the larboard tack. At 2-20 p. m. calm, with a 



heavy sea breaking fore and aft over the Brig. At 3 p. m. the wind came 



from the NW. and blew with the same force; the squalls heavier till 



midnight. 



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