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 fell down ill excruciating tortures. On examining them everal holes appeared to have been burned in their clothes which were of flannel: and in various parts of their bodies there were mall wounds, as if made with a hot iron of the ize of a ixpenny piece. I immediately ordered ome of the crew to perform the operation of the Otahiteans, called Roro mee, which caued a coniderable abatement of their pains, but everal days elaped before they were perfectly recovered. The other ball truck the funnel of the cabooe, made an exploion equal to that of a wivel gun, and burned everal holes in the mizen-tay-ail and main-ail which were handed. At the height of it the barometer was 28°28″ [sic]. The alarm which we may be uppoed to have experienced during the whirlwind, was not allayed by the noie of the birds, who, not conidering the hip to be a place of afety, as is the cae in common gales, appeared, by the violence of their hrieks and the irregularity of their flight, to be enible of the danger: for as the quall approached them numbers plunged into the ea, to avoid it; while thoe who could not ecape its influence, were whirled in a piral manner out of ight in an intant. It very fortunately reached us only within two cables length of each beam, and o paed a-head of the hip to the North. From our firt eeing, to our loing