328 Account of a Cyclone in the Andaman Sea. [No. 4t; 



The Cyclone had struck the Ship first with S. E. the same as was 

 the case with the Mutlali and Alma, but at a later date and to the 

 east of the former, and earlier and to the west of the latter, the 

 Coromandel being in a position between these two Ships. This con- 

 firms the view already taken of the Cyclone passing from S. W. to 

 N. E. The Coromandel instead of passing through the right semi- 

 circle of the Cyclone, as the other ships, must have steered right 

 across its tract into the left semicircle, narrowly escaping the centre 

 itself. That she was closer to the centre than any of the other 

 ships is proved, as already mentioned, by the rapid changes of the 

 wind between 1 p. M. and 7 p. m. from E. S. E. to N. W. The ob- 

 servations of the Coromandel allow us to fix the centre to about 20 

 or 40 miles north of Preparis Island at 4 p. m. on the 9th, and its 

 passage to the main land between that hour and midnight is shown 

 by its position at midnight which we have fixed from the observa- 

 tions of the Cape of Good Hope and the Alma. 



We are now also enabled to trace the position of the centre at 

 noon on the 9th. The Coromandel had at that time the wind from 

 S. E., the centre bearing S. W. At the same hour the Mutlali had 

 the wind from S. the centre bearing west. Proceeding from the 

 positions of the two ships at noon on the 9th these bearings unite 

 in fixing the centre to about ten miles north of the little Cocos 

 Island (vide charts.) This agrees well with the observations of the 

 Cape, the wind about noon near Chiduba being east. 



It now remains to trace the positions of the centre at noon on 

 the 10th. At that hour, the Alma in the Gulf of Martabau, very 

 near the coast had S. W. when the Cape of Good Rope about 40 

 miles S. west of Cape Negrais had N. W. The bearings of the 

 centre from these directions of the wind point to a position about 

 40 or 60 miles to the North of Rangoon, on the main land. Thi3 

 is further confirmed by the change of the wind about noon at 

 Amherst from S. to S. W., I have delineated the tracks of the 

 ships and that of the storm on the 9th and 10th on the two accom- 

 panying charts. 



By information received, the storm was not felt at Akyab, but its 

 widest circle about noon on the 9th touched Chiduba Island and 

 shortly after that hour Amherst, where I take the change of the 



