'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎8] (109/496)

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At Colombo, it was reported to have been u stormy, rainy, and
cloudy,” and at Trincomalie it blew a gale which veered from south
to £. W. with a force of 4 pounds on the square foot, the sky “ oyer-
cast, with lightning, thunder, and rain.
About 30 or 40 miles from Cape Comorin, the Ceylon Island had
tempestuous weather, with the wind blowing at S. E. to S. S. E., and
in the course of the day “ lost the mizen topmast, crossjack yard, and
had all the sails blown away.” This little vessel, both on this and the
previous day, had been u scudding right before it under bare
poles” : we must therefore conclude that the sails were carried out
of the gosgets,—an accident that can only happen to well stowed
sails by a severe hurricane. At Cannanore and Tellicherry the gale
was setting in at E. S. E. and S. E., “ with one continuous shower
of rain, vivid sheets of lightning, and dreadful claps of thunder”;
while the Faize Rubahny, in Lat. 11° 19 7 S., near the coast, had a mo
derate gale at E. S. E., with a very high sea, hazy weather, and some
rain. She was under single-reefed topsails, and, in steering southward,
met such a heavy head sea as to cause her “ to pitch away the dying
jibboom and spring the mainmast.”
On the western border of the storm we find the H. C. Steamer
Sesostris running to the eastward and finding the wind at N. N. E.
gradually increasing to a gale, and “ a long swell from the S. E.” was
experienced when in Lat. 13° 15 / , Long. 70° 28 / S. It is also noticed
in the log-book, that there was “ a very dark threatening appearance
to the eastward.”
About 200 miles south-east of the Sesostris we find the Buckingham
shire to have been in about Lat. 9° S., Long. 72° 58 / E., with a hard
gale at north by east, and north, attended u by a very high sea and
constant rain.” The vessel (a 1400 ton ship) was under double-reefed
topsails, with the foresail furled and the royal yards on deck,—all in
dicative of bad and threatening weather.
On the Neilgherries, at the Dodabetta Observatory, the gale was
E. S. E. with an increasing force, which at noon, on this day, was 18
pounds on the square foot. The wind had gradually veered from E. \ 8.
to E. S. E., the sky overcast, and incessant rain descending.
At Madras, the wind was southerly and light, with cumulous clouds
and some rain. At Calcutta, it was east, veering to south, “ cloudy and
thundering.” At Bangalore, S. E.