m A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



dangerous shoal which had escaped the vigilance of 

 Monsieur Faiii^, of La Favorite, Its poaitioJi, by crOBS 

 bearings, was Tokoiig Island iN,N.E., 8m Island W. ^ S* 



Oa the i^rd^ we a^n anchored in Sincapore Roads. 

 We here found orders to proceed to Chm;^ the Com- 

 mander-in-Chief thinking it advisable to have a force 

 ready, in cajse the Government should think it necessary 

 to enforce the treaty made with the Chinese Government 

 by Sir John Davis;, in 1847, by which the gates of the city 

 of Canton were to he opened to strangers. 



This treaty was likely to he disregarded by the Chinese, 

 according to oppoi tuaity, when the immediate danger 

 should be removed, having been made at the bayonet's 

 point, whilo our troops were in poaseggion of the environs 

 of the Imperial city. There was now among its population 

 a growing disposition to dispute with their Govern men t 

 the idea of admitting the Barbarians of the outer Tvaters, 



Having received on hoard, through the cabin windowsj 

 a huge spar 9ti feet in length, to make a goyemmeut flag- 

 staff, with a topmast and yard to match — \vliich no other 

 ship on the station could or would carry, — we sailed on the 

 17th for China. We shaped our course so as to com- 

 municate with Sarawak and Labuan, and worked up the 

 Pahiwan coast. 



We then steei-ed for the Pratas, and made that 

 dangerous shoal N,B. J from the mast bead on 

 the morning of the 2Dth March, having been set twenty- 

 five miles to the westward during the night The 



