680 A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 127. 



The Chinese Repository for July 1835, Vol. V. p. 151, gives the 

 following account of this storm, in which this unfortunate vessel was 

 disabled, being afterwards plundered by the Chinese fishermen and 

 Ladrones : — 



"8th July, 1835 The English bark Troughton, Captain James 



" Thompson, from London, and last from Singapore, arrived this day 

 " in distress. It appears that on the 3d July, in latitude 20° 21' N., 

 " longitude 112° 53' E., she experienced a very heavy gale from the N. 

 " E., which was succeeded by a more violent wind from the S. W. The 

 " wind blew to pieces the double reefed main top-sail, and from the 

 " labouring of the ship in the cross sea the main mast gave way, carry- 

 " ing with it the fore and mizen masts, the waves breaking completely 

 " over the deck. During the three following days, the crew were 

 " worn out by pumping, and working at the rigging of the jury 

 " masts. By this time she was near the Mandarin's Cap, when 

 " she was plundered/' Details of this and of the sufferings of the crew 

 are given at length, but these do not belong to our subject. 



This unfortunately meagre record (for our purpose) allows us to do 

 no more than to assign a conjectural track for this tyfoon, for from 

 the changes of the wind it evidently was one. I have, therefore, with 

 allowance for her drift, given it one conjecturally from the S.E.bS. 

 to the N. W.bN., as it would clearly have been one from S. E. to N. W. 

 had the vessel remained stationary while the N. E. storm lasted ; and 

 I have made the line of track to pass 60 miles to the S. W. of the 

 latitude and longitude given on the 3d, as the ship must have drifted 

 to, at least, that distance to the S. W. into the path of the storm, so 

 as to have had the centre passing over her. 



TRACK No. XXIV. 

 The Raleigh's Tyfoon, August 1835. 

 I was at first inclined to omit the details of this storm as appearing 

 almost a useless repetition, but my object being to collect here all the 

 details of all the storms in the China seas of which any record exists, 

 it would have been imperfectly fulfilled, had I not inserted the results 

 of the valuable labours of Mr. Redfield and Col. Reid, relative to 

 this remarkable storm. The following, then, is copied from Mr. Red- 



