Towards night, however, the wind went back to E., and blew very fiercely, raising very heavy and irregular sea-squalls of rain.

The lightning was very vivid.

It blew very heavily until about 1 A.M., when it abated for more than two hours, blowing only in puffs, and then not very hard.

Near the centre of the cyclone, lowest barometer.

A little past midnight a quartermaster entered with the report that the starboard-bow port had been stove in! It was then blowing furiously.