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and Simpiesometer 20.30. At midnight strong gale and squally, mak- 

 ing preparations for bad weather. 



\0th November. — 4 a.m. Simpiesometer 29.20. To 6 a.m. ran 38' 

 NWbN. when " blowing terrifically with awful squalls," hove to 

 with head to the NNW. 9 a.m. gale still increasing, took in the 

 main top-sail and lashed a tarpaulin in the mizen rigging; 9-30 a.m. 

 top-masts blown over the side, and all the sails from the yards. 

 Simpiesometer fell from 4 a.m. when at 29.20, to 28.10. At noon 

 gale lulled off with showers of rain, and dark gloomy weather. Lat. 

 by account 11° 1' N., Long. 95° 12' E. Simpiesometer not rising. 

 p.m. ship lying to with head to the WN. Westward, the gale hav- 

 ing again come on from the SW. at 0.30 p.m., and blowing with 

 more violence than ever. 2 p.m. terrific hurricane, boats blown to 

 pieces. In the log, wind marked " variable from NE. to ESE," 

 at 11 p.m. head " up North off N.W." Midnight hurricane still 

 increasing. 



Mth November. — a.m. Head as before to noon, the same wind from 

 1-30 a.m. p.m. terrific hurricane. 2 p.m. saw a Barque about ^ of 

 a mile to the Eastward with only her lower main and mizen masts 

 standing.* 



At 10 p.m. hurricane lulled off with an awful swell, and dark 

 gloomy weather. Simpiesometer at 27-2. At 10-30 p.m. wind veered 

 round to the NE. blowing with more violence than before, and start- 

 ing the front of the poop. Throughout this sea log (from noon) ship is 

 marked " Heading from SE. to North," and " Wind blowing all 

 round the compass." 



Fearful of the poop being blown away altogether, took the chrono- 

 meters, sextants, charts, &c. below. Midnight hurricane still blowing 

 terrifically. 



\2th November lh. 15m. a.m. struck, and at daylight the ship 



was found high and dry in a mangrove swamp; the Runnymede being 

 close to them. Their Lat. was 12° 2' N., Long. 93° 12' 40" East. 

 They were taken from the Islands by ships sent from Moulmein. 



After the ship was on shore the remainder of the gale was from 



ENE„ at which point it fell to fine weather. Capt. Hall estimates the 



rise of the sea, (the storm wave) on the shore as at least thirty feet ! 



He, farther, does not estimate the ship's apparent average, drift (such 



* This was the Runnymede. 



