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daily rise should take place. It continued to fall slowly but steadily. Making 

 all preparations for bad weather. Ship covered with land and sea birds and 

 insects which came on board for shelter and would hardly move when in danger 

 of being trodden on. Faint variable airs till about 2h. 30' p. m. when a 

 southerly breeze sprung up, which soon began to blow hard with a most threat- 

 ening appearance. At 4 p. m. hove too in about Lat. 18° 6' N. ; Long. 89° 

 25' East, on the larboard tack. 6.30 p. m. Bar. 29.15; Simp. 28.80. Wind 

 increasing fast at south, and from 8.30 to 10.30 blowing a perfect hurricane 

 but without veering. At 8.30, when the wind was beginning to blow with the 

 greatest fury, the Bar. and Simp, began to rise, and continued to rise steadily. 

 Midnight Bar. 29.30 ; Simp. 28.95. Wind S. S. E., a hard gale and heavy 

 gusts of wind and rain. 



13th Oct. — Daylight wind S. E. very hard gale but Bar. and Simp, continue 

 to rise; noon Lat. Acct. 18 20' N.; Long. Chr. 89° 26' E. ; Bar. 29.63; 

 Simp. 29.35. Saw much wreck in the forenoon ; p. m. wind S. b. E. steady 

 southerly gale throughout; gale evidently broken ; Bar. and Simp, always rising. 



14*A Oct.— -10 A. m. Bar. 29.75; Simp. 29.32; noon Lat. 19° 25' N.; 

 Long. 89° 05' East. A Northerly set of 80' since the time the ship hove too 

 on the 12th. 



Extract from the Log of the Barque Asiatic, Capt. G. Barlow, 

 (No. 1 0, on the Chart) from Madras to Calcutta. Civil Time. 



On the 10th October, the Asiatic was at 6 p. m. in 55 fs. Lat. at noon 19° 

 41' N.; 870 7'. 



11th Oct. — a. m. light variable breezes, apparently from the N. N. W. and 

 East; ship standing to the N. E. and S. S. E. ; sounded in 15 fs. ; at 5, 25 fs. 

 noon squally from the North, standing to the East; Lat. 20° 7'; Long. 86.56' 

 East. At 8 p. m. increasing ; Bar. 29.60. 



12th Oct. — a. m. increasing; close reefs at noon, when wind from the N. E. 

 Lat. 19° 32'; Long. 88° 19' East. 



4 p. m. Bar. 29.40 9h. 29.26. 



5 38 10.. .14. 



7 33 11.. .10. 



8 33 12.. 28.94. 



Midnight wind East, heavy gales but with breaks in the sky at intervals. 

 13th Oct. — a. m. wind East, hard gales; 7 a. m. E. N. E. ; noon Lat, 19° 

 8'; Long, 86° 8' East. 1. 30 a. m. wore and kept away North; at 3 a. m, 

 hove too under bare poles. Noon hurricane from E. N. E. 



1—2 a. m. Bar. 28.97 1 —6 p. m. Bar. 28.70. 

 3—4..,.,... .90 —8 60. 



