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at North a moderate royal breeze. Towards noon it fell light and 

 went round to E. IS. E. falling almost a calm, the sea in the channel 

 was nothing to speak of during the day at 5-30 p. m. I anchored in 

 quarter less seven fathoms with sixty fathoms of cable in the follow- 

 ing position, the Eeef Buoy bearing S. by W. distance about four 

 miles, the Barque Nassar was South a little below the buoy, the 

 JFaizel Curreem S. S. E. about the same distance, a moderate breeze 

 sprang up after sun-set from E. S. E. and went round to the south- 

 ward by 10 p. M. About midnight I was called and found the wea- 

 ther to have a very threatening appearance, to the S. W. the squall 

 came on with such force that I thought the little vessel was going 

 to be blown out of the water altogether, the channel became one 

 heap of breakers, at the same time, my first desire was to slip, but 

 Captain Pollock not liking the idea of loosing the sixty fathoms of 

 chain requested me to remain until daylight ; fortunately the little 

 vessel was light and rode without shipping a single sea, it being an 

 ebb-tide, the wind from West to W. S. W. being a-beam, so that we 

 rode without requiring to give her more cable, the only dread we 

 had was of a roller breaking on board of us, which I am happy 

 to say did not occur. At 3-30 a. m. the wind moderated and the 

 sea was not so violent at 7 a. m. on the morning of the 16th with 

 a light air from W. N. ~W. 



W. Jackson, 



Master. 



No. 4. 

 I have the honour to inform you, that I received your letter 

 No. 1669 of the 9th instant yesterday, directing me to furnish for 

 the information of the Superintendent of Marine, a statement of 

 the weather and our proceedings on board during the night of 

 Saturday the 15th ultimo. 



In reply I beg to state that we experienced no gale of wind on 

 the night mentioned, we were riding with seventy fathoms of cable, 

 in consequence of the heavy swell then running in the channel. I 

 have enclosed an abstract of the log for the 15th and 16th ult. 



(Signed) C. E. Bean. 



Mate in Charge. 



