and scattered for the most part without fixed abodes, the difficulty of meeting with them on the immense extent of coast over which they roam, is one of the principal obstacles that navigators meet with in their traffic on these coasts. For the first two days after we left Sitka we had a very strong east wind, but met with no remarkable occurrence on the whole voyage to Owhyee, where we cast anchor off the village where Tameamea resided, on the ninth of January, -1819. The wind was so unfavourable that it took us three days to go to Woahoo, and after we had employed five days in embarking the water and provisions, and some sanders wood, we were detained seven days longer by south winds and calms. The chagrin caused by this delay was something alleviated by the kindness of three American gentlemen, Messrs. Davis and Meck, owner and captain of the Eagle, of Boston, and Mr. Pigot, of the Fouster, who had lately arrived from Kamtschatka. Taking leave again of Woahoo, on the 26th of January, I steered southwards, to the eighteenth degree, intending to keep in that latitude till we reached the Mariana Islands. On the 24th we came in sight of Assumption and Agrigan. The summit of the former was constantly hidden by a small cloud, or white vapour, from which flakes, which soon disappeared, every moment detached themselves. I think it can only be the smoke of some subterraneous fire. Early in the morning of the 7th of March, we were only a few miles from the northernmost of the Bachees islands, and on the 9th came in sight of the coast of China. On the 11th we cast anchor off Macao, to which I immediately went to procure a pilot, to conduct us to Wampou. The ship did not anchor in the roads till the following day, which, for the inhabitants of that town, was the 13th of March. We advanced our reckoning a day accordingly. I returned on board with the pilot, and on the 17th, in the afternoon, we anchored at Wampou, alongside the Indienne of Nantes. The delays which we had experienced, both in America and the Sandwich Islands, had an unfavourable influence upon our operations in China, where we did not arrive till the latter end of the season. The difficulties which obstruct business at this late period of the year, were increased by the extraordinary number of Americans, who, having preceded us, had caused the value of imported goods to fall, and had exhausted, or raised the price of, the produce of the country. I endeavoured to avail myself of the smallness of my ship, and the insignificance of its cargo to be excused from the enormous duties imposed upon our vesels, at a time when all those which came to China were of large burden, and to have it treated like the Americans coming from the north-west coast; notwithstanding the absurdity of assimilating the Bordelais to a Company's ship, the Chinese alleging the established custom, rejected my application: the only advantage I obtained was a reduction of 700 piastres in the payment to the Comprador, the best part of which, as well as other similar expenses, turns to the advantage of the authorities. We left Wampou on the 23rd of April and cast anchor before Macao on the 25th. I passed the following day in that town to dispatch my packets for France, and to take in wine and some medicines. On the 27th we sailed in company with the Indienne. Before I quit China I must acknowledge the kind reception given me by factors and merchants of the several European Nations. I shall not continue my narrative any further as the interest attached to the expedition of the Bordelais till its arrival in China does not extend to the voyage home, which could add nothing to the knowledge that we have already acquired by two centuries of constant intercourse. I shall content myself with saying that leaving Macao on the 17th of April, we stopped from the 1st to the 17th of July at the isle of France to repair a leak, doubled the cape on the 13th of August, and having been delayed by unfavourable winds in the voyage to the Azores, the Bordelais was obliged to ask a supply of provisions from three different vessels, and did not make the coast of Oleron till the 19th of November. She entered the Gironde on the 21st, and thus completed her voyage round the World in 37 months and two days, having been 22 months and 6 days under sail. FINIS. D. SIDNEY and Co. Printers, Northumberland Street, Strand. INDEX TO VOL IX. Page Afghans, account of the, their Customs, &c. ABBEY, Westminster, Monuments in, and general de- scription of Acsa, Hungary, description of Adult Education, observations on . Niemeyer Russian Missions Forbin Alps, Avalanches of the Mount Euvers, Glacier of Animals that inhabit the extraordinary account of two bears on the Amsterdam, on the literary Institutions of Arabs of El Ghiblal, their Custom on landing from Mon:èmont Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid Niemeyer plundering expedition by ed by on their Funerals list of certain words spoken by Armenians in Hungary, characteristic observations Arveron, Sources of the Ashantee, Mr. Bowdich on the horrible human sacrifi- Ibid 103 1bid Ibid Ibid Barrington, some account of the noted, at Paramatta Cramp 16 Bartfield, Poland, description of Beudant 95 Batto tribes, barbarities of Cramp 41 Bavaria, on the plains of Beudant 38 Bay, Botany, description of Bell and Lancastrian Schools, on the Systems taught in Niemeyer 47 Bench, the King's, account of Benye, Hungary, a sanguinary contest at Bible, on the distribution of the Society, and Missionaries, observations on tween Blenheim, Oxfordshire, description of Bochnia, Salt-mines of. Bombay Island, description of Niemeyer 73 Buonaparte, imminent danger and relief of, by a pea- sant at Mount St. Bernard , interesting anecdote of, in the on the Tomb of, at St. Helena. Boromeo Isles, description of Bremen, on the Museum of literary and scientific Institutions in on the importance of such institutions to large Montèmont Montemont 34 passage Ibid 71 . two subterraneous curiosities of Breven, Mount, Chamouny, description of description of in Briançon, humourous scene at Bridge, London, reflections on the number of passen- gers and coaches over in one day Bristol, on Mr. Smith's scholastic instructions of adults Buenos Ayres, on the insurrection in Geological retrospect on the country of ley of Chaumont, valley of Wales Chede, lake of punishment of the Bastinado at Caravan, of Arabia, description of , attack of, by a tiger Caroline, late Queen of England, some descriptions and character of the witnesses against Catalmia, the San Sacramento river in Catania, Sicily, the description of Ceremony, an Hindoo to regain cast, account of -- La Croix de Flegere, mountain in the val- Chancellor, the Lord, on the official situation of Chartreuse, the Great, description of Charles, Rev. Mr. on his intruction of adults in North Chelsea hospital, some account of Chili, on the Revolution in Ibid China, on the Mandarines of character of the people of Chiva, description of interview with the Khan of Cramp Ibid ib. Russian Missions 86 Ibid 105 -, note of a Russian prisoner's at, found in the barrel of Mouraview's gun affecting account of a Russian prisoner at Colquhoun, on the causes of moral degradation Commons, Doctors', observations on Courts of justice in England, observations on Como, Lake, description of Crimes, on the inefficacy of the punishment of Croats, characteristic observations on Cservenitza, Hungary, opal mines in the environs of Cuddapah, India, description of DANUBE, description of the Montèmont 55 Niemeyer 72 Ibid 74. Beudant 36 Ibid ib. Customs of the Mahommedans at Ibid ib. on the Productions of the Plains near the |