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OCTOBER, 31 Days.
Chinese XXIXth Year, VIIIth and IXth Moons.
Northerly winds prevail throughout this month, occasionally veering to north- east or northwest; but the temperature of the atmosphere is neither so cold nor so dry as in the following months; neither does the northerly wind blow so constantly-southerly and easterly winds intervening every now and then. The winter usually sets in with three or four days of light drizzling rain.
Days of Days of
month.
moon.
Chronicle of events in China, &c.
16 Tinghái retaken, 1841.
1 m
2 t
17
3 w
18
4 t
19*
5 f
20
6 s
21
7.S 8 m
22
23
9 t
24.
10 w
25
11 t
26
12 f
27.
13 8 14 S 29
23
15 in
1
16 t
2
17 w
3
18 t
19 f
120 s
6
21 S
22 m
23 t
9
24 w
10
125't
11
126 f
12
27 s
13
28 S
14
29 m
15
80 t
16-
31 w
17.
Rev. J. A. Gonçalves`died, 1841.
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Alexander H Everett, commissioner, U. S. A.
arrived and landed at Macao, 1847.
18th Sunday after Trinity.
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Supplementary Treaty signed at the Bogue, 1843.
Chinhái taken; 1841.
Lord Napier died at Macao, 1834, and Mr. Davis
succeeded as Chief Superintendent. Halley's comet observed in Canton, 1835. Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. 19th Sunday after Trinity.
NINTH MOON. Yukien, imperial commissioner in
Chekiáng, committed suicide, 1841.
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Nemesis and Phlegethon go up to Yüyáu, 1841. 20th Sunday after Trinity.
Treaty of Whampoa between France and China
signed, 1844.
In Canton, 1200 houses and 3 factories burnt, 1843.
Terranova executed by the Chinese, 1812. 21st
Sunday after Trinity.
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