Cape to Java,
1800 leagues.
Java to China,
600 leagues.
This is not a very good passage, considering that we
carried the north-east trade wind to the latitude of 4° north,
and longitude 23° west, where we got the south-east trade,
without any interval of calms.
2 ... .
Sailed from the Cape on the 26th April 1816.
Arrived at Anjier Point, Java, 7th June . 42 days.
Six weeks,..
After leaving the Cape we had strong westerly winds,
with which we ran the longitude down, in the parallel of
38° and 39° south, till in longitude 57° east, where thé
weather being very stormy, we hauled to the north-east till
in 35° south latitude, and then ran east till in 90° east,
when we steered to the east-north-east, and crossed the
tropic in 102° east, which was probably too far west. Thé
south-east trade hung -far to thé eastward, and made it
difficult to fetch Java Head, which had we not sueceedediri
doing at first, might have caused considerable delay, as the-
wind still blew out of the Straits of Sunda,
3 ,
Sailed from Anjier Point, Java, on the 12th June, 1816.
Reached Gaspar S.traits.on the 17th June 1816 5 days.
Arrived'off Macao, 8th July . , . 2 1 ,
From. Java to Macao in 3 weeks 5 days,, or.26 days.
This passage was unusually bad, it being nearly a week
before we reached Gaspar Straits, an ordinary run of
one day: in the south part of the China sea the southwest
monsoon was very light. An American brig, which
sailed only one day before us from Anjier Point, carried
the breeze along with her, and reached Macao twelve days
before us.
4.
fVio Sailed from the Ladrone Islands off Macao, on me -±I Qomf k tLoatdhreon Yee Iisiolawnds
July 1816. leagues.
Rounded the promontory of Shantung and entered the
Yellow Sea, 25th July . . • V • 12 days.
From thence to the anchorage off the Pei-ho
or Pekin River, 27th July • • • ' 2
Macao to Pekin River, in 2 weeks, or 14 days.
This voyage can be compared only with that of the Lion
on the occasion of the former embassy. The Lion was
nearly three weeks, exclusive of the time a t anchor at
Chusan. W e h a d fine weather and steady south-west winds,
with very heavy dews at night. When nearly abreast of the
south point of Corea, the wind became variable from the
south-east and southward. In the Yellow Sea we had easterly
winds and no fogs.
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