But on the fourteenth all this changed.

The simple journal thus describes the terrible tempest which endangered the two vessels, and seemed, at the moment, to cut off the hope of their return to Europe.
"Monday, February 14 .-- This night the wind increased still more; the waves were terrible.

Coming from two opposite directions, they crossed each other, and stopped the progress of the vessel, which could neither proceed nor get out from among them; and as they began continually to break over the ship, the Admiral caused the main-sail to be lowered.

She proceeded thus during three hours, and made twenty miles.

The sea became heavier and heavier, and the wind more and more violent.