The tide lips came up from the south and travelled north, approaching first with a heavy swell, which caused us, being broadside on, to roll so violently that we kept the ship off her course from two to three points to bring the roller more on the quarter.

These rollers would be followed by a confused tumultuous sea, foaming and fretting in every direction, as if we were among breakers.

We were in fact among breakers, though fortunately with no bottom near.

No boat could have lived in such a cauldron as was produced by this meeting of the waters.

They generally passed us in about three quarters of an hour, when everything became comparatively smooth again.
No observation to-day for latitude, but by computation we are in latitude 5.25 N.and longitude (chronometer) 42.19 W.Current east by north 58 miles.