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April 30. (Tuesday.) 



A whole calendar month has elapsed since our 

 quitting Jamaica, during which the wind has been 

 favourable for something less than four-and- twenty 

 hours ; either it has blown precisely from the point 

 on which we wanted to sail, or has been so faint, 

 that we scarcely made one knot an hour. How- 

 ever, on Tuesday last, finding ourselves in the lati- 

 tude of the 44 still-vexed Bermoothes," by way of 

 variety, a sudden squall carried away both our lower 

 stunsails in the morning y and at nine in the even- 

 ing there came on a gale of wind truly tremendous. 

 The ship pitched and rolled every minute, as if she 

 had been on the point of overturning ; the hen- 

 coops floated about the deck, and many of the poul- 

 try were found drowned in them the next morning. 

 Just as the last dead-light was putting up, the sea 

 embraced the opportunity of the window being 

 open, to whip itself through, and half filled the 

 after-cabin with water ; and in half an hour more 

 a mountain of waves broke over the vessel, and 

 pouring itself through the sky-light, paid the same 

 compliment to the fore-cabin, with which it had 

 already honoured the after one. About four in the 

 morning the storm abated, and then we relapsed 

 into our good old jog-trot pace of a knot an hour. 

 Our passengers consist of a Mrs. Walker with her 

 two children, and a sick surgeon of the name of 

 Ashman. 



