32G Account of a Cyclone in the Andaman Sea. [No. 4. 



more to the eastward but further south. On the 8th the gale in- 

 creased, the wind veering to S. S. E. The Brig now left her anchor- 

 age and ran before the gale, standing N. E., the force of the wind 

 still increasing and blowing furiously on the forenoon of the 9th 

 from S. On the 10th the force of the gale moderated, the wind 

 veering to S. S. W. and S. W., the Brig running for the Maul main 

 river. The barometer continued to fall from the 7th, and was low- 

 est on the 9th. 



On the 10th it rose again. According to the veering of the wind 

 the Mutlah was also in the right semicircle of the Cyclone and by 

 the barometer nearest to its centre on the 9th, the centre bearing 

 west. Judging from the violence of the weather she experienced ? 

 she must have approached it much nearer than the Semiramis. She 

 met the gale two days earlier than the Semiramis, and further west. 



Although the observations of the two Ships coincided so far, it 

 was a strange circumstance that in these latitudes (15° to 17° N.) 

 a Cyclone should travel in the direction indicated, namely, from 

 west to east, the common course of Cyclones in these latitudes being 

 from east to west, and confirmation was still required of the nature 

 of the storm having been that of a Cyclone. 



This was given by the Mail Steamer, Cape of Good Hope, which 

 experienced bad weather on the 9th, passing along the Arracan 

 Coast from Akyab to Rangoon. With her, the Cyclone set in from 

 the east about noon near Cheduba, the wind increasing and veering 

 round to N. E. and the sympiesometer falling. The violence of 

 the storm was greatest and the sympiesometer lowest about and 

 after midnight, wind N. when she was about forty miles N. W. of 

 Cape Negrais. After this the wind changed to N. "W*. the storm 

 moderated and ceased at noon on the 10th. The Ship arrived at 

 Rangoon on the evening of the 11th with fine weather. 



The wind having commenced with E. veering by N. to W., the 

 Cape of Good Hope was evidently in the left semicircle of the 

 Cyclone, and nearest its centre about midnight, on the 9th the cen- 

 tre bearing E. 



On the morning of the 9th, when approaching Amherst we had 

 sighted the ship Alma on her way from Amherst to Port Blair. She 

 passed us with N. E. wind which she kept till late in the afternoon* 



