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per Point:--The reef off this point can be passed close to; it appears to extend from the coast about 24 cables in a north-west Bay--The sand bank off Chappoo uncovers at low water, but it is placed too far out; II.M.S. Bouncer, in steaming from t of the bay, passed 2 miles to the northward of it. Heong-po, which is placed on the chart 2 miles to the southward of its tagja ein. is a good anchorage during a typhoon.
Just to the northward of Hoi-ta is a reef covered at low water, about 3 miles long, and three quarters of a mile from the Sing it the soundings decrease rapidly from 7 to 3 fations, and then to 8 feet, in a distance of 200 yards. Between and Hoi-ta good water can be obtained, but the shore is foul for the distance of one mile from the beach. Two small tanding in the plain by themselves, and in front of the range behind them, form good land marks for Hoi-ta to vessels com- s the south-west: from the north-east these hills appear as one, but are still remarkable.
-Slight shelter will be found here in the south-west monsoon, and a little good water may be obtained. The coast is ecen vi-ta and this point. A low sand extends from this point to Back-li Bay, with a ridge of hills 3 or 4 miles iulanĮ.
A Bay:--A low sandy beach runs from the spit off See-ku-sha point, the north horn of the bay, to the point marked "reef" a wiere it terminates in a curious domed shaped hillock visible some distance to seaward, aud making like an island. A reef ers at high water, and extends about 200 yards from the shore, runs from this point to the anchorage off the water port of Back-li, as Tung-tow, which is a small creek in the sand, with a depth of from 5 to 6 feet at high water. at there are sand flats on which the sea breaks: a depth of 24 fathoms at low water was found at a distance of about 2 miles Between Tang-tow and See- a ter shore, and at half a mile from these banks.
- bay is a bad anchorage in the south-west monsoon.
ink-li bay the Bouncer passed about three miles from Pyramid point, and steering 6 miles off the land kept outside all the Aow sandy beach with hills from 4 to 5 miles inland extends round the whole of the west coast.
Now is a bad anchorage, having only shelter for junks in a small creek. Two islands marked on the chart as 10 miles W. by N. Matton Island (which lies off Nychow) do not exist. Two hills standing on the low sandy point which extends further out than is
wa, and appearing as islands to vessels coming from the south-east or north-west, may account for this error.
Current:--During the passage from Gow-tow island to Hoi-how on the north coast of Ilainan a current of 3 kuots an hour was resumed to the N.N.E.: this was after south and south-westerly winds of a week's duration. mytrographic Office, Admiralty, London,
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24th December 1869
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following List of Masters and Mates who have passed their Examinations before the Board Examiners provided by Ordinance No. 17 of 1860, during the year ending 31st December, 1869, published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
LIST MASTERS and Mares who have passed their Examinations, during the Year ending 31st December, 1869.
DATE.
NO. OF CER-
TIFICATE.
NAMES.
Jarwary
310
John Henry Shatswell,
311
John Burgess,
312
Francis Milsom,
February
313
John Speechly,
March
314
John H. Bufe,
315
Thomas Smith,
10
316
Richard Weeks,
RANK: ***
Master.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Mate.
Master.
G
317
John Ford,
10
318
Y. Y. Rassmussen,
24
319
24
320
Thomas P. Fleming,
Lawrence P. Ward,
Do
First Mate.
Master. Second Mate.
24
321
George P. Kruse,
Master.
322
Gorhan S. Carlton,
Do.
328
Charles Zachlehner,
Do.
31
324
Ignaz Wichman,
Do.
2
325
William Heans,..
First Mate.
15
326
George A. de Smidt,
Second Mate.
1+
17
327
Walter Moore,
24
328
Nicholas Duchresen,
24
329
Aubrey Nelson,
28
330
Robert J. McConnell,
August
5
331
12
332
Felix H. Binary,
12
333
William C. Howard,
tember
7
334
John McGovern,
16
335
Johannes Frahm,
Aember 16
336
John C. Grundy,
18
337
William Lawrence,
23
338
Desember
Thomas P. Perry,
339
Henry J. D. Lampe,
D'Auvergne de St. Croix,
Master.
Do.
Second Mate.
Do.
Only Mate. Master.
First Mate.
Master.
Do.
Do.
་་
340
Max. F. F. Hođinann,
#!
341
Thomas Mitchinson,
Do.
Do.
Master.
Do.
Do.
Haber Master's. Office, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1870.
H. G. THOMSETT, n.5.,
Harbor Master, §c.