Indeed, as I was passing along from the camboose to the cabin, with a plate of toast in one hand and a teapot in the other, the brig took a lee lurch without giving notice of her intention, and sent me with tremendous force across the deck, to leeward, where I brought up against the sail.

But the tea and toast were ejected from my hands into the sea, and I never saw them more.
At twilight, Captain Tilton came on deck, and looking around the horizon, said, addressing the mate, "Mr.Thompson, the weather looks GREASY to windward; I fear a gale is brewing.

You may find the top-gallant sail and jib, and take a reef in the mainsail." This work was soon accomplished.

The captain's prediction was verified; for the wind continued to increase, accompanied with fine drizzling rain, until about nine o'clock, when orders were given to take another reef in the mainsail, and double reef the fore-topsail.

It was not long before the wind swept across the waves with almost resistless force, when it was found necessary to strip the brig of all canvas, excepting a storm main-staysail and close-reefed fore-topsail; the yards were braced up, the helm lashed a-lee, and the brig was laid to.
The gale continued unabated all night.