Harry Collingwood 
A PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEES & THE PIRATE ISLAND [EPUB ebook] 

‘It was emphatically ‘a dirty night.’ The barometer had been slowly but persistently falling during the two previous days; the dawn had been red and threatening, with a strong breeze from S.E.; and as the short dreary November day waxed and waned this strong breeze had steadily increased in strength until by nightfall it had become a regular ‘November gale, ‘ with frequent squalls of arrowy rain and sleet, which, impelled by the furious gusts…’ (The Pirate Island)
Harold Mac Grath was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.