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have carried sail to the N. E. or N. N. E. and soon found finer 

 weather, but a small schooner could do nothing better. 



5. Ararat — Chased and ran into the centre, though being evidently 

 a good sea boat, and well handled, she escaped unscathed as to masts, 

 though of course straining her hull greatly. She should have hove too 

 at least by 6 a. m. on the 12th, for there could then be no sort of 

 doubt of a Cyclone, and it is quite useless, if not dangerous, to get 

 close in with Point Palmiras or the Pilot station in such weather. 



6. Flora Macdonald — Like the Eagle, was hove to on the right 

 tack, and could do no better, being close in to the Eastern shore. 



7. Barham — Perfectly well managed, heaving too at the right time 

 and in the right place, and did not strain a rope yarn ! 



8. Wellesley — The same masterly management as the Burham. 



9. Sea Park — The same. She was at the centre when it settled 

 down, and though as it passed on it gave her, being on the Eastern 

 side a Southerly gale, yet she very properly hove to till it was safe and 

 proper to run on, so as to come into soundings in moderate weather. 



10. Asiatic — Had the wind at N. E. at noon with every indication 

 of a Cyclone to the S. E. of her, and the known tracks being almost 

 invariably from that quarter. If like the Futtle Rozac/c, close to 

 which ship she was, she had run to the S. S. W. and hauled gradually 

 up, so as to run round the heel of the Cyclone, she might have escaped 

 the severe part of her smaller Cyclone, and the risk of being dismasted 

 while drifting on a leeshore. 



1 1 . Sir Robert Seppings — This ship's Barometer, standing high, 

 the frequent ireacherous moderating of the wind, and perhaps the desire 

 to obtain a farther offing, led her to stand to the Eastward till she placed 

 herself exactly on the track of the centre. She should have bore up 

 to the South between 10 p. m. and midnight of the 12th, and have run 

 round " under the stern" of the Cyclone, when she would have reco- 

 vered her Northerly position, unscathed, by about the time at which 

 she was dismasted ! 



12. Camperdown.— At noon of the 12th, was standing to sea being 

 15 miles S. S. W. from the Pilot vessel. Her case and the course she 

 should have adopted is exactly that which will be supposed in the 

 next section, but with the difference that she had far more time and 

 room to run down and cross before the Cyclone, since it was 1 9£ hours 

 before the centre reached her. 



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