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27^ October. — Fine weather ; latitude observation 18° 25' N., lon- 

 gitude 114° 31' E. 



28th and 29th Oct. — Ship again under command of her helm, and 

 found that we could just weather the Paracels and Bombay Shoal, 

 with a steady Easterly wind ; resolved to make the best of our way to 

 Singapore. 



November 2d. — Passed in sight of Pulo Sapata. 



Saturday, \2th Nov. — Arrived safe at Singapore. 



Storm raged in lat. from 2 i° to 18° N., and from long. 1 14° to 1 1 6° E. 



During the whole of the tyfoon, the Marine Barometer never fell 

 below 29.60." 



The following is the account of the Panama's part of the storm, as 

 given by Mr. Redfield : — 



" Extract from the private Journal of Wm. F. Gristvold, Esq. Mas- 

 ter of the ship Panama, on a voyage to Canton, October, 1831. 



October 23d, (Nautical time,) lat. 9° 17' N., Ion. 117° 16' E., 

 wind came out at southward and continued until 10 p. m., then died 

 away and commenced from the Northward with a heavy head sea. 

 Forenoon, breeze from N. W. and clear weather. Latitude 9° 45' N., 

 longitude 117° 25' E. 



October 24th — Pleasant breezes from N. W., and hazy steady 

 weather. A sea rolling from the Northward. I suppose there has 

 been a gale in the China sea, which has not yet reached us. Evening, 

 wind rapidly increasing and Barometer falling from 29.75 to 29.40. 

 Midnight reefed top-sails. — 9 a. m. double reefed do. — barometer 29.20. 

 Ends with tremendous gale from the westward and heavy sea — baro- 

 meter 29.10. Lat. 11° 15' N., long. 118° 20' E. 



October 25lh.— Heavy gale W. S. W barometer 29.05 Gale haul- 

 ing to the southward. Evening more moderate. Made a little sail. 

 Wind at 7 P- m « from south-westward; 11 p. m. from southward. 

 In the morning at 5 o'clock the wind came out at S. E. (barometer 

 at 29.10) and blew a perfect hurricane. Hove to under mizen stay- 

 sail ; barometer at 1 p. m. 29.05, 4 p. m. 29.00, 7 «• #*• 29.10, 8 a. m. 

 29.20. I believe this fall of the Barometer to be, in this latitude, 

 very remarkable. 



This gale was on the 24th and 25th October, civil time, and from 

 its peculiar features and double fall of the barometer, there appears 

 something like the falling in of two hurricanes on the same track. 

 It was, doubtless, in whole or in part, the same hurricane that visited 

 Manilla on the night of the 23d of October, and which is noticed by 

 Col. Reid. The irregularities of the storm may have been caused by 

 its passage over the Philippine Islands, the Panama being then off the 





