350 Nineteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms, [No. 5. 



Friday, \kth January, 1848. — First part light N. W. breeze, shifting sud- 

 denly at 5.30 p. m. to east and soon after E. S. E. leading us to hope we had 

 the S. E. trade. 



Midnight moderate at east becoming however light and variable. A heavy- 

 swell from the westward. 



Bar. Simp. Ther. 



8 p.m. 29.91 29.76 83. 



Noon 29.88 29.75 84. 



Noon. 



Latitude, 9° 22' S. 



Long, by Chron 88° 39' E. 



Do. Lunars, 88° 47'. 



Course and Dist. S 20 W. 84 miles. 

 Saturday, 15th January, 1848. — First part light baffling airs with gloomy 

 showery weather settling down about 8 p. m. into the S. E. trade. 



A very confused heavy swell from the west meeting a lesser swell from the east- 

 ward causing the ship to be very uneasy. Should think it must have been blow- 

 ing hard somewhere to the westward. 



Bar. Simp. Ther. 



8 p. m 29.90 29.80 82 



Noon, 29.91 29.81 82 h 



Noon. 



Latitude, 10° 59' South. 



Longitude, „ 87° 25' East. 



Course and Dist. made S. 37 W. 121 miles. 

 Experienced a current these 24 hours of 37 miles setting S. 79 W. 

 On the 16th, weather still unsettled and in 12° 38' S. ; and 85<> 25' east ; 

 with a heavy N. W. swell throughout. 



In his letter to me Capt. Baylis says, "from the 13th to the 17th January, 

 1848, a hurricane or severe gale must have been at no very great distance from 

 me as is proved by the circumstance of the Sir Henry Pottinger cutting away 

 her foremast in a hurricane on the 14th January in Lat. 9° S; Long. 83° 0' 

 East. I being on the same day in Lat. 9° 22' S. ; Long. 88° 39' east ; distant 

 from him S. 86° east; 339 miles." 



Captain Baylis wrote from London to Liverpool to obtain the Log of this 

 ship and the John Bull* but had no reply from either of the commanders ! 

 Ship Wellesley, Capt, Arrow, from Calcutta to England, 

 Copy of Capt. Arrow's Private Log. 

 On 10th January, 1848, in 6° 26' S. ; Long. 87° 12' E. ; Bar. 29.96; Simp. 

 29.36 ; Ther. 81°. A long swell from west and westerly breeze. 



\\th January.— Trom 10th, Course S. 23 G E. 134'; Lat. 8° 29' S. ; Long. 

 88° 14' E, ; Bar. 29.94 ; Simp. 29.30; Ther. 83°. Squally fresh breeze S. W. 

 and fine with a heavy head sea. 



* I have obtained no account of what occurred to them. 



