140 May 1854 Hong Kong China carlines. The violent and sudden gusts of wind which came off the land almost continually prevented any very accurate shot at objects on shore, but in firing at objects thrown into the water and suffered to float astern, I found this carbine a much more accurate instrument than I had expected. After trying for fish with our lines, without success, went ashore at a little beach at the bottom of the cove, formed of piles of large small stones & boulders, and found here a few water worn cones etc. On the smooth surface of a rock of felspar near by, I noticed several iron-stone geodes. On climbing the little bank which formed the isthmus, I found the sea close at hand on the other side, dashing up with great violence. An immense chasm had already been formed, and the peninsula must soon become an island, by the action of the waves during Hutt's coast sales. Around the summits of the precipices forming the sides of the chasm, numerous black fish-hawks were soaring. 141 May 1854 Hong Kong China It was past noon when Small returned with no tidings of Mr Wright. I had gotten into some little difficulty with three Chinamen, by indulging in undue curiosity with regard to a little joss temple in 'a hole in the side of the hill; and these men would probably have attacked him had he been unarmed. I now began to feel very much troubled about Mr W. and was about organizing an strong party to ascertain his fate at all hazards, when the welcome sight of an individual in his shirt sleeves, coming down the hill with an immense band of shrubbery, at once relieved us of anxiety. Mr W. had been very successful. We then all went aboard and after getting dinner, love up anchor and started for home ie U.S. Ship Vincennes, at anchor in H.K. harbor. The mist and fog had now begun to accumulate, driving before the wind which had now increased into a gale, before which we ran quickly up the bay under close-reefed sails. When we reached Lianwon passage it began to rain violently, and while getting up sheltering mats we ran along side of a fishing (trawling) boat