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seen approaching. I signalled to her that I had a 

 communication to make, and sent an officer to explain 

 the situation. She proved to be the vessel about 

 which Captain McLeod had expressed some concern. 



Many of the crew and several of the officers, includ- 

 ing the navigator, having by this time come down with 

 the dengue fever, fortunately of a comparatively mild 

 type, I decided to proceed at once to Singapore. 



We sailed leisurely through the Java Sea, which was 

 covered with fine particles of pumice-stone, and on the 

 30th of September arrived at Singapore, having stopped 

 en rottte one day at Mintok. 



At Singapore a telegram was received from Rear- 

 Admiral Crosby directing me to proceed at once with 

 the Enterprise to Hong Kong, on account of the riot 

 at Canton and the disturbed condition of affairs in 

 China. Thus the visit to Borneo had to be given up. 



Note. 



I can finish this chapter in no better way than to 

 copy extracts from a Boston newspaper giving the ex- 

 periences of the bark VV. H. Besse near the Straits of 

 Sunda at the time of the earthquake. 



