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May 30. Interviewed a Mr. Squires, who had been engaged in 

 Batavia by Captain Rodgers, he had made a collection of marine 

 animals from the Gaspar Straits. 



June 10. Our ship the Vincennes is about to proceed to Canton as 

 the European residents there, among whom are numerous Amer- 

 icans, are said to be in danger of an attack from the insurgents, 

 who are making demonstrations against the city. 



June 11. Canton. During three days we lay at our anchorage in 

 Whamoa Reach. Then Commodore Perry arrived on the U.S. 

 Mississippi and we were relieved. 



August 7. News came that Commander Ringgold was relieved of 

 his command. [For some time he had been very ill and quite mad.] 



August 12 to 31. All of the stores were removed from the Kennedy 

 since it had been condemned as an exploring vessel. Some of 

 the stores were brought on board the Vincennes and the remainder 

 stored ashore at the Naval Store House. 



September. [At this time the following ships were assembled in 

 Hong Kong: ship Vincennes, under Captain Rodgers; steamer 

 John Hancock, under H. K. Stevens; brig Porpoise, Acting Com- 

 mander William Bridge; schooner Fenimore Cooper, Acting Lieu- 

 tenant Commander C. Gibson. The Susquehanna was sent home 

 via Japan.] 



September 9. Hancock and Cooper sailed for surveying cruise up 

 China Coast as far as Korea. 



September 12 to 30. China Seas : N. Lat. 21°52' andE. Long. 114°09'; 

 N. Lat, 22°25' and E. Long. 123°53'. 



October 1. N. Lat. 23°; E. Long. 125°36'. 



October 3. Made Ty-pin-san [Taipinsan] one of the Meca-co-sima 

 [Miyako-jima] Group. 



October 18. Reached Bonin Islands. 



October 19. Port Lloyd. Made a haul of the dredge in ten fathoms. 

 Dredged in a place called "Ten Fathom Hole" and got many 

 minute shells. The collection of shells secured here is smaller 

 than would have been the case had not more important subjects 

 claimed attention, for there was no lack of specimens; large 

 cowries, (C. mauritiana) Strombs, and other kinds being abundant, 

 A Patella two inches in diameter, and strongly ribbed, which I 

 have seen nowhere else, was frequent on the rocks. The number 

 of species found was one hundred and ten, at least forty of which 

 also occur at Loo Choo [Okinawa] or on the Chinese Coast. 

 The Bonins are a collection of small islands stretching along for 

 about one hundred miles in the direction of the meridian and 

 forming three distinct groups. The center one of which contains 

 the largest (Peal) island, about five miles in diameter, in which the 



