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Island, its right hand quadrants, close to the centre, taking Hong 

 Kong, while the left hand ones at different distances struck the 

 ship in the Lantao Passage and the town of Macao. I have therefore 

 given it that track, as one tolerably well ascertained for the only part 

 of its course of which we have any notice, and marked it as No. XXX 

 upon our chart. 



Ardasekr's Tyfoon of November, J 841. 



For this tyfoon, I have only, I regret to say, the following Documents : — 

 Abridged hog of the Barque Ariel, Captain «/. Burt, reduced 

 to civil time. 



The Ariel left Macao roads at noon, 16th November, 1841, with 

 moderate North breezes and fine weather, p. m. to midnight wind 

 North to 3 p. m., and N. E.bN., afterwards stood to S. and S. S. W., 

 6 and 7 knots, with fresh breezes and cloudy at midnight. 



l*Jth November. — 4 a. m. strong breeze and thick weather, noon 

 fresh gale, (about N. N. E.), and thick weather with a cross sea, lati- 

 tude account 19° 31' N., longitude 111° 51' E. p. m. strong breeze 

 N. N. E. and thick rainy weather, 8 strong gales, increasing to severe 

 gale at midnight when under bare poles. 



\8th November. — 3 a. m. wind marked North. 2h. 30m. gale mo- 

 derating. Day-light moderate, noon latitude observation 16° 09' N., 

 longitude 110° 09' E. In the last two days a current of 70 miles to 

 the S. W.bS. 



Macao, 29th July, 1842. — The late arrivals report the occurrence 

 of excessively heavy weather in the China Sea in the middle of 

 November; the Water Witch encountered very hard gales for suc- 

 cessive days, which nearly exhausted the crew; and the following 

 extract of a letter from Capt. Mclntyre, of the Ardaseer, will inform 

 our readers of the narrow escape which that vessel had from 

 foundering: — 



' Left Singapore, Nov. 2, 1841 ; calm, anchored ; noon on the 3d pass- 

 ed Pedra Branca ; entered Palawan Passage on the 8th ; wind shifted 

 to the Eastward, determined to try the China Sea; passed Pulo 

 Supato on the 11th with a S. W. gale; 13th, wind shifted to the 



