320 DEPART FOR LOO-CHOO. [1845. 



sun, and the weather continuing still to threaten, did not 

 warrant further detention, particularly as it was my 

 intention to revisit them on my southern route. I found 

 landing practicable, and remained on the reef, upon which 

 it rises, as long as any hope remained, either of seeing 

 the sun, or obtaining the bearing of Tia-usu from it, but a 

 heavy squall put an end to any further exercise of patience. 

 Raleigh Rock rises abruptly from the reef to a height 

 computed at ninety feet perpendicular on all sides, and 

 covering an area of probably sixty feet, in diameter, 

 appearing in the distance, as a junk under sail. As we 

 found it upon the computed bearing as given in the 

 charts, from Tia-usu, its position cannot be much, if at 

 ah 1 , in error. 



Giving up for the present any further delay in this 

 uninhabited and not very interesting region, we pushed 

 on for Loo-Choo, with no small degree of anxiety on my 

 part, from having reckoned upon gaining some insight 

 into northern politics, and upon making them acquainted 

 with the probability of our coming into contact with those 

 whom I knew they now considered their lords and masters. 



On the 19th we anchored in the roads of Napa Kiang, 

 and were immediately visited by the Officers of State, 

 &c., requesting, in their set form, to be made acquainted 

 with the object of our visit, and what supplies we stood 

 in need of. The reply, " water and the sun ", seemed in 

 no way to disconcert them ; they were evidently aware 

 of the object of our visit, and did not appear to be quite 

 so well satisfied when apprized of our intention of sailing 

 either the next, or at latest, the following day. 



Presents of one bullock, two hogs, three goats, and 



