2 P.M.
A heavy swell began to come from the southeast . Our sails flapped against the masts , and the ship rolled from side to side as heavily as if she had been water-logged . There was so little wind that she would not steer . At 2 P.M. we had a squall , accompanied by thunder and rain . The seamen , growing restless , looked anxiously ahead . They said we would have a dirty night of it , and that it would not be worth while to turn into their hammocks . As the second mate was describing a gale he had encountered off Cape Race , Newfoundland , we were suddenly taken all aback , and the blast came upon us furiously .