364 Nineteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms. [No. 5. 



Extract from a Tabular Statement of the Voyage of the H. C. Pilot 



Brig Salween, from Port Leschenault to Calcutta, — Nautical 



Time, 



21st April, 1848.— Made 67 miles to the W., N. W. winds variable N. E. to 

 N. N. W. Latat noon 6° 20' S. ; Long. 86° 6' east; Bar. 29.30 to 29.60; 

 Ther. 81°. Light winds, squally wet weather, thunder, lightning and rain, and 

 threatening appearance with a N. N. W. sea. 



22nd April —Made 19' to the N. W. b. W. I W. only ; winds variable from 

 N. E. to N. N. W. and Northerly. Lat. at noon 6° 20' S ; Long. 85° east ; Bar. 

 29.60 to 29.75 ; Ther. 83°. Squally wet dirty weather with a bad threatening 

 appearance ! Am sure we are not far from some very severe weather from the 

 very threatening appearances of some days past. Sent top gallant masts on deck 

 and made all due preparations for meeting a hurricane. Spoke H. M. Brig 

 Jumna, 9 days from Bombay, running to the southward.* 



Abridged Log of the Ship Futtle Rozack, Capt, Bundle, from 

 Calcutta to the Mauritius. — Civil Time, 



This able Log affords a valuable and instructive example of a ship 

 being caught in front of a Cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere, and 

 though bound to the W. S. "Westward running to the N. Westward to 

 allow the centre to pass. The passages in italics are so marked by 

 myself, and I may add that the Futtle Rozack is a heavy sailing ship, 

 and was deeply laden with rice and coolies. 



From the 17 th April, when in Lat. 5° 53' S. ; Long. 86° 4' East at 

 noon to the — 



19th of April— At noon in Lat. 7° 38' S. ; Long. 85° 36' east; the ship had 

 light variable winds all round the compass with calms and squally appearances 

 at times ; the Bar. being on 17th at noon at 29.71 ; Simp, at 29.27 and Ther. 

 84°; and on the 19th Bar. 29.60; Simp. 29.27; Ther. 82°. On the 18th, 

 Capt. Rundle remarks — " Noon light breeze and cloudy, Bar. and Simp, very 

 low and have been gradually going down this last four days. Preparing for bad 

 weather." And p. m., again, that " the weather is suspicious, or rather that the 

 continued fall of the Bar. and Simp, is so, but the weather altogether does not 

 appear to indicate the approach of any great change more than we might 

 expect on the verge of the S. E. trade, although this heavy S. E. swell rolling 

 up is suspicious." 



* I regret much that this Register is in Nautical Time and that there is no hour 

 affixed to this notice. 



