88 TYPHOON. 



with much feeling the malady that had 

 rendered me incapable of doing my duty 

 any longer, and the little chance there 

 appeared to be of my recovery in that 

 climate, he said he thought he was best 

 consulting my interest, and fulfilling the 

 promise he had made my parents, by 

 advising me to return to England, where 

 I might obtain the best medical advice, 

 and under proper care in my native land 

 be rescued from the effects of so dis- 

 tressing a disorder. He then informed me 

 that he should, therefore, on his arrival in 

 China, seek out some homeward-bound 

 Indiaman with whose captain he was ac- 

 quainted, and procure me a passage home. 

 To this 1 reluctantly, and of necessity, 

 assented. 



Proceeding on our voyage, we were 

 overtaken in the China seas by one of 

 those periodical storms known by the 

 name of a Typhoon, which surpassed all 

 I had before seen, or, indeed, have ever 



