The wind, too, hung perseveringly in the east, and things were getting uncomfortable.
They were destined, as the following extracts will show, to be yet more so.
_Wednesday, December 11th._--As ugly-looking a morning as one could well conceive.

Thick, dark, gloomy weather, with the wind blowing fresh from the east, and threatening a gale (bar.

29.70 and falling) and a steady but moderate rain falling.

Put the ship under short sail.

Our large number of prisoners renders the crew very uncomfortable during this bad weather.