80 TY-PIN-SAN GROUP. [1844. 



On the 1 8th of January, 1 844, we quitted our anchorage 

 in Port Haddington, and steered to pass to the northward 

 of the two low coral islets situated off the N.E. extremity 

 of Pa-tchung-san, but suddenly finding ourselves in seven 

 fathoms water, with a heavy swell setting from the north- 

 ward, tacked and ran between them, upon recollecting 

 that our friend, " the Hydrographer", had so advised. 

 During the latter period of our examination of the northern 

 extremity of Pa-tchung-san, we obtained sight of these 

 islands, and upon getting angles to them from one of my 

 positions, I had informed our intelligent friend alluded 

 to, that I should call there on my passage towards Ty- 

 pin-san. At that moment he was surrounded by many 

 spies, and probably afraid of making any communication 

 without the sanction of Kien-Anchee, he therefore watched 

 for an opportunity the ensuing day, and motioning me 

 to follow him behind the house whilst the others were 

 deeply engaged, drew out these two islands upon the 

 sandy walk with his staff, and with a motion full of 

 meaning, formed a line between them to signify that 

 such should be our course ; this done, he immediately 

 defaced his outlines and pretended to be in search of 

 something in the sand. We thought at a late period 

 that the fact of his affording this, and other similar in- 

 formation, had been discovered, as his spirits were less 

 buoyant. These islands I suspect to be Ta-la-mah and 

 Yer-rah-boo, names given by the natives of Ty-pin-san 

 to islands reported to be visible from the summit of 

 Koo-ree-mah, on that bearing. 



The Islands of the Ty-pin-san group are Ty-pin-san, 

 Koo-ree-mah, Y-drah-boo, Y-ki-mah, and Oo-ga-mee. 



