APPENDIX. 



451 



VII. 



ABSTRACT FROM A DIARY KEPT BY WILLIAM FOXALL, PILOT OF THE 

 HARBOUR OF PAGO-PAGO, ISLAND OF TUTUILA, SAMOAN GROUP, 1839. 







WINDS. 





















CALM 

 DAYS. 



CLOUDY 

 DAYS. 



RAINY 

 DAYS. 



CLEAR 



MONTHS. 



Northward 



Southward Southward 



Northward 



DAYS. 





& Eastw'd. 



& Eastw'd. 



& Westw'd. 



& Westw'd. 











JANUARY, 



5 



13 





12 



1 



5 



6 



20 



FEBRUARY, 



3 



12 





13 





4 



12 



13 



MARCH, 



7 



16 



1 



6 



1 



2 



18 



11 



APRIL, 





22 



1 





7 



4 



9 



17 



MAY, 



1 



19 



1 



6 



4 



8 



18 



5 



JUNE, 



1 



27 



2 







4 



15 



11 



JULY, 



3 



22 



5 



1 





1 



12 



18 



AUGUST, 





25 



1 



5 





9 



7 



15 



SEPTEMBER, 



8 



19 



3 







4 



4 



22 



OCTOBER, 





12 













11 





28 



187 



14 



43 



13 



41 



101 



143 



VIII. 



EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GEO. BURADER TO THE REV. W. MILLS, 

 RELATING TO A REMARKABLE PHENOMENON OF THE TIDES AT THE 

 HARBOUR OF PAGO-PAGO, ISLAND OF TUTUILA. 



Wednesday, November 7th, 1839, 2 h 20™ p. m. the tide rose sud- 

 denly to two feet above high-water mark, spring tide. 



At 2 h 30 m , sunk to low-water mark, neap tide. 



At 2 h 35™, rose as high as at first. 



At 2 h 40™, sunk to low-water mark, spring tide ; immediately rushed 

 in again with great violence, and with such rapidity, that in two 

 minutes it was as much as three feet higher than it had been before. 

 Receded with equal force, and at 2 h 52 m had sunk a great deal below 

 low- water mark. 



At 2 h 55 m rose again as high as before; receded about eighteen 



