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and rain as cold as ice. Edging away to E. S. E. and S. E. b. E. 

 under two close reefed top-sails, wind S. W. and at intervals W. S. 

 W. and West. At 8, ropes and gear on deck brilliantly spangled by 

 small luminous sparks from the sea which when examined appeared 

 to be fragments of Medusce. Again visible to the W. S. Westward 

 the sullen red glare and flickering lightning ; midnight squally, sea 

 presenting flashes of phosphoric light in all directions, Bar. at 9 p. m. 

 29.63, Ther. 78°, clouds low stratus and ponderous nimbi. 



2Jth November. — a. m. Increasing gale West, and at 2 N. W. to 

 Noon ; very high sea; at 1, wind shifted from W. S. W. to N. W. 

 creating a tremendous sea ; 10 a. m. struck by a heavy sea which laid 

 the ship on her beam ends, lost main-top-mast ; scudded before the wind 

 to the S. E. under barepoles. a. m. Bar. falling rapidly, noon Lat. by 

 D. R. 6° 38' S., Long. 86° 53' E., Bar. 5£ a. m. 29.63. and Ther. 

 79°. at7h. Bar. 29.62; at 9h. 29.57; at lOh. 29.53; at 10±h. 29.50; 

 at llh. 29.47; at 11^ 29.44; at noon, 29.43 and Ther. 80°, clouds 

 throughout exceeding low stratus. 



p. m. Wind N. W. to 10 p. m. when North ; course S. E. to 10, and 

 then South ; 3 feet water in the hold and most of the crew sick ; vessel 

 making only 4 knots per hour before the wind and labouring exces- 

 sively. At 6 Bar. rising very fast, and at midnight falling again with 

 dark gloomy threatening weather all round. Bar. at 2 p.m. 29. 46, Ther. 

 81° ; at 4h. Bar. 29. 47 ; at 5h. 29. 56 ; at 6h. 29. 62 ; at 7h, 29. 63, and 

 Ther. 79°; at 9h. 29. 61 ; at 9^h. 29. 58; at 10|h. 29. 62; at llh. 

 29.50 ; at midnight 29.49. Ther. 77°> clouds, exceeding low stratus. 



28/^ November. — Wind N. E. the whole 24h. a. m. increasing gale, 

 wind veering suddenly to N. E., in a furious squall, lost fore-top-mast, 

 ship lying to in much distress, Bar. 29.47 at 1 a. m. Ther. 79° ; 

 2 a.m. 29. 45 ; 5 a. m. 29.44 ; at 6h. 29.43. Ther. 80° ; at 1 lh. 29.45 

 Ther. 81°, noon 29.49 and 82°. Lat. D. R. 7° 39' S. double Alt. 7° 4/ 

 Long. 87° 17' E., clouds low stratus with ponderous nimbi. 



p. m. wind N. E. tremendous squalls blowing with inconceivable 

 fury. The sea rising in huge pyramids yet having no velocity but 

 rising and falling like a boiling cauldron. I have never seen the 

 like before, I was in the height of the terrible hurricane of September 

 1834, in the West Indies, I have been in a tyfoon in the China sea, 

 in gales off Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, but 



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