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the storm passed her she would have had fine weather, and the wind 

 probably from the S. E. We cannot say also if it was not, though so 

 very violent, a monsoon gale, which the season might well admit of, 

 and the want of Barometrical observations tends to perplex our judg- 

 ment the more. I have therefore marked only a conjectural track 

 from the N. E. for this storm. 



1833. 



TRACK No. XXI. Storms of the Brigs Bee and Virginia. 



Documents from Capt. Biden, and CapL Willie. 



We have records of two considerable storms in the China sea, in 

 this year, of which one at least was a true tyfoon, I think. The first 

 was a storm occurring in August, in which the brig Bee was lost, the 

 brig Virginia bound up the China sea, narrowly escaping it; and the 

 second was a storm experienced by the H. C. S. Lorvther Castle, of 

 which a memorandum was obtained for me from her commander, 

 by the Hon'ble the Court of Directors. I give here the documents, 

 with the usual abridgments. 



Extract from the Log of Mr. Willie, Mate of the Brig Virginia, 

 bound to China, reduced to civil time. 



26th August, 1833.— Light 3 and 4 knot breezes S. W. to S. E., 

 steering N. E. and N.E.bN. At noon latitude 15° 44' N. p. m. 

 breeze decreasing to a calm at midnight. 



27th August. — 5 a. m. light breeze, N. N. W., all sail set. At day- 

 light a bank of heavy black clouds in the E. S. E. At 8 moderate, 

 breeze North and cloudy. Till noon veering between N. N. W. and 

 North. At noon, fresh breeze N. W. and N. Latitude observation 

 16° 10' N., longitude account* 114° 26' E. p.m. increasing from 

 N. W.bN., and at 7 p. m. N. N. W. At 8-30 squally and rain, pre- 

 paring for bad weather. At midnight fresh gale at N. W., with 

 heavy squalls and rain at times. 



* No longitudes are given in the Log, I have therefore, as the vessel's true position 

 is of importance, worked it back from the Grand Ladrone. 





