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Tracks II. and I. 



North Pacific Ocean and China Sea Tyfoon of October 1845. 



I am indebted for the data of this track to Rear Admiral Parker, by 

 whose order several logs and a sketch chart were transmitted to me 

 through Mr. Elliott, Master of II. M. S. Agincourt, and to Capt. H. 

 Gribble, late of II. C. S. Repulse, who also sent me several brief abstracts ; 

 I have placed together the logs of these two tracks, because it is quite 

 probable that the two Cyclones were connected, though we have no direct 

 evidence of the fact. II. M. S. V. Driver, bound to New Zealand, met 

 with a Cyclone on the 6th Oct. in the Pacific Ocean, in Long. 127° 30' 

 east, and the John 0' Gaunt, the first of the vessels which suffered from 

 it in the China Sea, had it commencing on the 8th in about the same la- 

 titude, but in 116° 40' East. This gives a distance of about 650 miles to 

 be traversed in two days, which will allow a nearly average rate of 13.5 

 miles per hour. 



As before noted I have no intermediate notices to connect these two, 

 except one from the Friend of China of the 31st Dec, of the loss of the 

 Bremen Brig Express from Mazatlan to China with treasure, on the 

 Bashees, on the 8th October, of which the following is also a newspaper 

 notice from Singapore. The circumstance that the Driver s Cyclone, 

 Track H. was travelling to the northward of west, while that of the Ann 

 Espiegle and other ships is to the southward of west, I do not con- 

 sider as material, for I have no sort of doubt that a Cyclone might be 

 deflected by the lofty mountains on the north of Luconia and curve 

 away to the southward after it had passed them, if it met then for in- 

 stance, with a strong N. E. breeze or other conditions altering its course. 



" Manila. — The Amigo del Puis, December 14th, 1845, contains an official no- 

 tice of the loss of a foreign vessel on the coast. The communication states that 

 on the 9th November was reported by the Mauanian, the loss of the Bremen 

 brig Express, 460 tons, which went on shore during a gale of wind and became 

 a total wreck. There were on board Captain Henry Hackfield and ten men in- 

 cluding the supercargo, Mr. Edward Vischer. The cargo consisted of Sapan- 

 wood, Gold, Sycee Silver and dollars, valued at ^80,000. The gale commenced 

 on the morning of the 8th November, and continued until 2 p. m. of the 10th. 

 By the timely assistance of the people at San Carlos, the whole of the cargo 

 was saved. Her Britannic Majesty's frigate Samarang received the whole of 

 the cargo on board and was to convey it to Manila". — Ibid. 



