Wind about E.S.E., inclined to haul to the southward.Bar.

29.59.The pall of clouds is not so dense as at noon, and the rain comes only occasionally in squalls.

The clouds are rifted, and appear to be on the point of rapid motion.

Wore ship to the northward and eastward.

The wind soon after backed to the northward and eastward, and we had to run the ship off N.W.for a while.