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EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 



From Disappointment Island the conrse of the ship was steered directly for the Borodinos as 

 laid down in the ordinary charts. They were made on the 22d of June directly ahead, and 

 were found to he two in numher, situated five miles apart, and lying in a N.N.E. and S.S.W. 

 direction. They appeared to he of coral formation hut of great antiquity, as trees of con- 

 siderahle size crowned the uplands, the most elevated part of which may have heen forty feet 

 ahove the level of the sea. The navigation in the immediate neighborhood seemed free of 

 danger, but no indentations were seen in the surrounding shore which might afford safe 

 anchoring places. No signs of people were discovered, and it is presumed that the islands are 

 tminhahited. The position of the extremity at the south of the southern island was estimated 

 to he in latitude 25° 4*7', and in longitude 131° 19' east. 



As during the return voyage moderate breezes from S.S.W. to S.W. prevailed with warm 

 weather, and as, in fact, the wind ever since the first de^jarture from Napha had continued 

 from the southward and westward, it may be inferred that the southwest monsoon extends as 

 far north as the parallels of latitude in which the course of the ships laid. The Susquehanna 

 and Saratoga reached, in the evening of June 23d, their anchorage in the hay of Napha, 

 where they found the Mississippi, the Plymouth, and the Supply. 



Port Lloyd and Boniu Islanda 



