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8 p. m. " wind hauled to W. N. W. and moderated, Bar. rising ; 10 p. m. 

 W. N. W. made sail and stood to the S. S E. 9' till midnight. 



30th November — 3 a. m. wind N. W. ; at 6, N. N. W. Daylight, 

 gale increasing, and Bar. falling ; to noon, severe gale N. N. W. with 

 furious gusts, Lat. account 9° 3' S. Long, account 85° 4'. E. ; 9 p. m. wind 

 N. N. W. severe gale and high cross sea ; at 8, wind N. b. E. to mid- 

 night, when Bar. rising a little. 



1st December. — By 9 a. m. strong gales N. E., to noon Lat. by account 

 1 1° 15' S Long, account 84° 22' E. p. m. the same, wind N. E.to mid- 

 night ; carried away chain plates and hove to ; midnight more moderate. 



2d December. — a. m. moderating to noon ; wind N. E. to 9 a. m. 

 and North to noon, when Lat. 12° 23' S. Long. 84° 30' E. p. m. wind 

 N. E. 5 moderate breeze and heavy cross sea. 



3d December — Noon, Lat. 13° 51' S., heavy sea still continuing, 

 wind E. N. E. and fine. 



Note. — Captain MacDougal informs me that during the storm, his 

 Bar. was at 29.38 and the Symp. at 29°28' the lowest, the Ther. 

 steady at 72° throughout the gale. 



The Lat. and Long, given, are partly from the chart, and partly 

 from account worked either forward or backward to the near- 

 est day of observation, Captain McDougal observes that having 220 

 emigrant coolies on board, he was obliged, during the height of the 

 storm, to steer various courses to obtain for them as much comfort and 

 safety as the weather would allow of, so that he can only give me 

 limits within which he thinks the vessel's position must have been. 



The log gives as nearly as can be ascertained, a current of 149 miles 

 to the South and 116 miles to the West, but it is necessarily very 

 imperfect, and the set of the storm wave and current on one day was 

 doubtless counteracted, in some degree, by that on a different part of 

 the storm circle on another. 



Abridged Log of the Barque Baboo, Captain Stuart, from Madras 

 to Mauritius, reduced to Civil time. 



26th November, 1843.— At Noon, Lat. 6° 17' S. Long, about 83° 

 40' E., wind S. W. b. S., ship steering to the S. E. b. S. 4J knots, squal- 

 ly and rain. Spoke the Tartar 7 days from Ceylon. Midnight, wind 



s. s. w. 



