212 Raleigh's Tyfoon of 1835. 



August 4.th. 

 barom. 29.79 Wind N. W. Fine weather. 

 " 29.70 " N. by W. Moderate breeze. 



August 5th. 

 " 29.62 Wind N. and N'. W. Fair Weather. 

 " 29.54 " unsettled^ — Rain and fresh breeze. 

 " 29.37 " N. blowing hard and in heavy gusts. 



August 6th. 

 " 29.34 Wind N. E. blowing hard with heavy rain. 



Augiist 1th. 



8 a. m. " 29.94 Wind S. E. CXoueiy .—Compiled from the Can- 

 ton Register. 



On Wednesday the 5th inst. a Tyfoon swept over the city of Canton. 

 It began in the evening and continued throughout the night and the next 

 day, blowing its best about 2 o'clock in the morning. The damage done 

 by the Tyfoon at Canton is small, but not so at Kumsingmoon, Macao, 

 and elsewhere on the coast. — Canton Paper. 



The American ship Levant, Capt. Dumaresq, which arrived on 

 the 7th of August, the day after the gale, came in with royals set, 

 from Gaspar Island, in fourteen days, having had light winds all 

 the way up the China sea, and did not feel the tyfoon. This im- 

 portant fact is stated in the Canton Register of August 11th. 



Extract from a private letter from on board the ship Lady Hai/es, 

 which left Macao Roads a day or two before the storm, and returned to 

 Kurasingmoon, after the gale. 



" Early on the morning of the 5th, we observed indications of bad 

 weather. At 10 a. m. the wind freshened a little from the same quarter 

 it had been for the last twenty four hours, viz. north; so we thought it 

 best to turn her head back again to look for shelter, fancying ourselves to 

 be about thirty five miles off the land. We carried a press of sail until 

 noon, when we found we had too great a distance to run before we could 

 get into shelter, and expecting it would get so thick that we could not see 

 our way; so we turned her head to sea, and clapped on as much sail as 

 she could stagger under, steering S. E. hy E. The wind being then at 

 north, we were desirous of getting as far off the land as possible, expect- 

 ing the wind round to the eastward, there being a most tremendous swell 

 from that quarter. At 4 p. m. it was blowing in severe gusts, and we 

 shipping a good deal of water, and the ship becoming unmanageable. 

 About 8h. 30m. the loind began to veer to the west, but continued to blow 

 as hard as ever, till midnight, when it drew round to south, and moderated 

 a little. It continued to blow hard from that quarter until noon of the 

 6th, when it moderated fast, and we began bending other sails in room of 

 those that were split. When the gale commenced, which we consider 



