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uneasy, bore up and scudded N. 1ST. E. Sunset more moderate, Bar. 

 29.40. Hove to again, head to Eastward, hard gale with constant 

 r ain to midnight. 



Nov. 19th. — The same with a dreadful sea sounded in thirty-six 

 fathoms water, and wore ship to the Westward. Daylight — gale 

 broke, Bar. 29.55. Noon — fresh breeze and making sail. 



Ship Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy from Bombay to China— from a News- 

 paper notice in the Singapore " Free Press." 



The ship Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Captain Gr. Fitzmaurice, which 

 arrived here on the night of the 24th instant, under Jury masts and 

 Jury rudder, experienced a furious hurricane off the Cocos Islands, 

 in the Andaman Sea, on the 18th November in Lat. 13° 45' N. and 

 Long. 93° 40' E. in which she lost her rudder, was obliged to 

 cut away her masts, and narrowly escaped being wrecked by drifting 

 in a narrow channel between the Great and Little Cocos. The fol- 

 lowing are the particulars extracted from the ship's log with which 

 Captain E. has kindly favoured us : — 



"At8p. m. on the evening of the 17th November, the ship was 

 going along with a fine fresh breeze from the North Eastward and 

 clear weather, not the least signs apparent of a coming hurricane ; 

 the Barometers and Simpiesometer not indicating any change, being 

 as high as 29.88, at which they had stood for some days previous. At 

 midnight the weather suddenly became overcast, and dark clouds were 

 rapidly rising, and before sail could be reduced, the wind had increased 

 to a furious gale, with a tremendous high sea running. At day-light 

 of the 18th, the wind had increased to a perfect hurricane, the wind 

 veering round to the S. E. tremendous seas covering the ship, wash- 

 ing everything away from the deck, cabins and boats — the violence 

 of the wind indescribable — blowing away all the topmasts ; noon the 

 water suddenly became discoloured, and on sounding found only 

 twenty-five fathoms ; the helm was immediately put up, but the ship 

 would not answer her helm. The mizen-mast was then cut away but to 

 no purpose, as it was found that the rudder was gone — cut away the 

 mainmast ; still the ship would not pay off— sounded in seventeen 

 fathoms, cut away foremast, and let go both anchors when the ship 

 brought up ; at 10 p. m. the wind shifted to the S. W. — -Hurricane 



