216 ' Raleigh’s Tyfoon of 1835. 
: - Methods jor Escaping its 5 
The professional readers of the Nautical Magazine will naturally 
inquire for the best method by which the Raleigh might have 
_ayoided the heart of the tyfoon, had its true character, and proba- 
ble course, been known. 'T’o this I answer, that the Raleigh being 
bound to the Bashee islands, and having sea room, and the gale 
having set in from N. or N. N. E., which showed that the ship 
was_then not far from the edperang its path, its greatest severity 
could have been avoided by either of the following methods : : 
rst, by tacking to the N. W., upon the wind, and, as the lat- 
ter veered eastward, hauling up for Formosa and the Bashee isl- 
ands, so far and as fast as the veering of the gale 1 in this direction 
might allow. 
Second, by standing away to W. 8. W. with a view of saving 
time as well-as distance, in the escape, and keepitig off more to 
the southward, as the wind should veer to the westward ; and 
when the barometer began to rise, by bearing away, unde the 
heel of the storm, for her point of destination. — 
The advantage of the first method would consist in wine to 
run a shorter-distance off her course, in order to avoid the centre 
of the gale. Its disadvantages consist in being too much headed 
off at the ‘outset, and perhaps, in getting. too far northward to 
make the best of the S. W. monsoon, after the gale should have 
terminated. The advantages of the second method would con- 
sist, Jin running off 5 more: rapidly, with a fair wind and sea; in get 
ing under t t of the gale, where, owing to 
the. course of the wind being counter to the progress of the storm, 
it becomes less violent ; in having almost throughout, a- fair, in- 
stead of a head wind;-and, finally, in being left by the storm to 
the windward of the point of destination, as regards the existing 
monsoon. ‘The disadvantage, if any, of this method would con-, 
sist in the greater extent of the rout; but as this would be accom- 
plished under far more favorable circumstances, and probably in 
much less time than the northern, it can hardly be counted as an 
objection. It would, however, have been sspanonid to ii the — 
Paracels, in shaping the southern course. 
The second method for avoiding the heart of this storm, there- 
fore, would appear to have been. preferable. But had the ship 
® alien under the more northern portion of the gale, toward the dot- 
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