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her down to Hainan North Bay, but this does not appear to have been 

 any thing more than a monsoon gale. Her consort, the Ariadne, was 

 compelled to bear up when near Manilla for want of fuel, and I 

 believe experienced some bad weather, but her log has not reached me. 

 The following is also a notice of a storm from the Singapore Free 

 Press. 



Singapore. 



On the evening of Sunday last, the signal wa3 hoisted for a Steamer to 

 the Eastward, and from the direction indicated, and the accounts that 

 had been previously received of them, it was supposed to be one of 

 the iron Steamers, either the Ariadne or Medusa, that started from 

 this together for China on the 22d of last October. This conjecture 

 proved correct, the steamer turning out to be the Medusa, Captain 

 Hewett, which had been compelled to put back to this port from 

 want of fuel; and the following are the particulars that have been 

 communicated to us of the voyage. On the 2d November, when 

 about 120 miles from Manilla, the Ariadne signalised that they had 

 burnt out all their fuel, upon which Captain Hewett, who was the 

 senior officer, hung out the signal for her to return to Singapore ; and 

 his own vessel having still sufficient fuel to carry him on to Manilla, 

 he continued his course for that port, which he reached on the 3d 

 Nov., but with scarce an ounce of fuel remaining. Having taken in 

 here about 30 tons of wretched coal, and as much wood as she could 

 stow away, even to filling the cabins with it, the Medusa got under 

 steam again on the 9th, and on the 13th, was off the Great Ladrone, 

 when they encountered a gale from the North East, and having again 

 burnt out all their fuel, they were compelled to bear away on the 

 following day. Here their compasses shifted two points to the West- 

 ward, and at daylight they found themselves in Hainan North Bay, 

 in the midst of breakers and seas running mountains high ; to escape 

 from this dangerous situation they had recourse to breaking up the 

 ship's bulwarks and every piece of available timber on board, and thus 

 provided a sufficiency of fuel for two hours steaming, by which they 

 escaped the perils that surrounded them, after they had nearly given 



