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can judge from her Lat. and Long, was in Long. 83° 40' E. Lat. 6° 17' 

 South or about 180 miles also to the Westward, standing close hauled 

 4£ knots to the S. E. b S. with the wind at S. W. b S. but with only 

 squally and rainy weather, whereas had the storm been of much larger 

 dimensions, that is if its centre was at any much greater distance from 

 the mean point between the four ships already noted above, the Baboo 

 must now have felt it more severely. Hence 1 50 miles is certainly 

 the utmost semi-diameter we can allow to the storm on this day, sup- 

 posing the circle to be fully formed. 



2Jth November. — The positions, of the same four ships, again form a 

 triangular figure, of which the longest diameter from W. S. W. to 

 E. N. E. is 75 miles and the perpendicular about 20. Three of them 

 indeed, the Fleming, Ainslie, and Futtle Rozack are so placed that 

 their mean distance is but about 18 miles, and I take this spot, Lat. 

 6° 32' S. Long. 87° 13' E. to be the average position of those three 

 ships. Their winds as marked in the logs are ; 



Elizabeth Ainslie about N. W. b W. 

 Fleming about W. N. W. 

 Futtle Rozack N. W. 

 N. W. b. W. is thus about the mean of their winds and the Ugie we 

 find had it W. N. W. Projecting these for the supposed bearing of the 

 centre S. W. b S. and S. S. W. it will give us two diverging lines, not 

 an unfrequent case where ships are near each other, the weather severe, 

 and the wind not probably " filled up," (if marked at all in the log) 

 till a day or two afterwards.* To the Westward we have the Edmon- 

 stone and Baboo with apparently streams of winds from the South 

 and S. S. W. and a sea from S. E. such as might be expected on the 

 Western verge of a gale, and exactly analogous to those experienced by 

 the Ainslie, Ugie, and other ships on the 25th when on its Northern 

 verge; and those ships Edmonstone, and Baboo, were also standing on 

 the starboard tack to the E. S. E, so as to run towards it. The Sophia, 

 a degree farther to the Westward, has the S. E. swell but less wind. 



* This is no exaggeration, as every one who knows what the severe and anxious 

 duties of the master and officers of a merchant ship, under the present economical 

 systems of sailing them, become in bad weather will fully admit ; and we must add 

 here that most of our ships had Lascar crews and Coolies on board. I do not then 

 it will be understood, make the remark in the text disparagingly, but as necessary 

 to put the reader in full possession of the facts and the grounds of my judgment. 



