CONTENTS. 
Ship— Departure of a Junk with Tribute— Visit of the Mandarin returned— Further 
Intercourse — Transactions of the Ship — Departure — Observations upon the Religion, 
Manners, and Customs of the People; upon their Laws, Money, Weapons, and Punish- 
ments ; their Manufactures and Trade— Remarks upon the Country, its Productions and 
Climate — Directions for entering the Port — Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Loo 
Choo. . . . . • Page 451 
CHAPTER XVHI. 
Passage from Loo Choo eastward— Arrive at Port Lloyd in the Yslas del Arzobispo— 
Description of those Islands— Passage to Kamtchatka — Arrival at Petr opaulski — Notice 
of that Place — Departure— Pass Beering’s Strmt— Enter Kotzebue Sound— Prosecute 
the Voyage to the Northward — Stopped by the Ice — Return to the Southward — Dis- 
cover Port Clarence and Grantley Harbour — Description of these Harbours — Return 
to Kotzebue Sound — Ship strikes upon a Shoal. . • • .513 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Arrive at Chamisso Island— Find the Barge wrecked— Lieutenant Belcher’s Proceedings— 
Conduct of the Natives— Approach of Winter— Final Departure from the Polar Sea- 
Observations upon the Probability of the North-West Passage from the Pacific — 
Remarks upon the Tribe inhabiting the North-West Coast of America — Return to 
California— Touch at San Bias, Valparaiso, Coquimbo, Rio Janeiro— Conclusion. 548 
APPENDIX. 
Fossil Remains ...... PS'gc ^93 
Mexican Bees . . . . • • • • 613 
Vocabulary of Esquimaux Words . . • .619 
Nautical Remarks . . . . • • • 628 
1. Geographical Position of Places . . . . • 663 
2. Altitudes of Mountains . . • • . . 675 
3. Currents ....... 676 
4. Barometrical Tables . . . . ■ . 678 
5. Horary Oscillation of the Barometer . • • . 692 
6. Humidity and Temperature of the Atmosphere, Sea, &c. . . . 694 
