216 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAl, u?. stood at 88 �d the barometer at 29.81 inches: ?,b. ?. half an hour before sunset the clouds, wh/ch had and approach us with loud thunder and vivid lightning: all the sails, except the tol?als which were lowered, were furled just in time to avoid any bad _effects from the squall, which corn, roericed with a strong gust from E.S.E. and East; it lasted about an hour, during the latter part of which we had very heavy rain, At eight o'clock the wind fell to a .c?im, and was ath?r- ?rards baffling and light from north to east and south-east. ?o. At daylight '(20th) the morning was dull and cloudy: a bank of heavy threatening clouds, rising from the eastward, induced my steer- " ing to the westward to await the issue of this weather, so unfavourable fo? our doing any good upon the coast, as well as increasing the danger of navigating among reefs and islands, where the tides were so Strong. The next morning at daylight we had a squall with rain and wind from the eastward, aiter which a fresh bree? set in from the same quarter: as this weather appeared likdy to last, I very unwilli_n_gly deter- mined upon leaving the coast, and returning im- mediately to Port Jackson. sl--?,' From the 21st until the 24th we had modera?
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