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tempestuous, and heavy sea. Obliged to work 
the pumps every hour ; the ship making two 
inches of water. From noon, till four p. m., 
steering with a tempestuous wind for the s. s.w. 
At this hour, the mouth of the Canal bore 
s. s. w., distant about 25 miles. On a sudden, 
experienced a gale of wind from the n. w. so 
unexpected and tremendous, that we had 
scarcely time to lower the sails, and were 
compelled to scud before it ' 1 ; encountering for 
an hour a hurricane of wind and sea from the 
n. w., which at the same time met the heavy 
sea from the s. w. in such a manner, that 
at every pitch the ship made, her bowsprit was 
carried under water ; our vessel at the same 
time labouring so much, that the sea washed 
entirely over her, and we were obliged to nail 
up all the port-holes and other apertures. 
At five p. m. the great fury of the hurricane 
abated. Put the ship a la capa 9 , with the prow 
to the s. w. carrying only the jib and mainsail, 
(2) The common and only resource of Turkiih vessels in a storm; 
hut never used by European ships, unless in cases of imminent and 
absolute danger. Had the storm continued another half hour, with 
the same violence, we must have been inevitably lost, even supposing 
her to sustain the violence of the sea, as we had a lee-shore under 
the ship’s prow. 
(3) ‘A la capa' is, literally, lying to, with the helm hard a-lee. 
