The rise and fall of the barometer were both very rapid.
During the violence of the gale, the birds flew very low, and with great rapidity, and some rain fell, though not a great deal.

The surface of the sea was one sheet of foam and spray, the latter completely blinding all on deck.

A curious result of the gale was a huge knot into which a strip of the maintopsail, the clew line, and chain sheet had twisted themselves in a hundred involutions, defying any attempt at extrication except by aid of the knife.
During this tremendous storm the Alabama behaved splendidly, proving herself as fine a sea-boat as ever swam.
By the evening the storm had lulled, but the sea was still running fearfully high, and it was not until the next day that it was possible to set about repairing the damage suffered in this by far the severest trial through which the Alabama had as yet passed..