October 1854 Pacific Ocean Oct. 1st N. Lat. 23° 00' E. Lon. 125° 36' W? SSE C½ ENE Av. 3 kn Sunday. Weather fine, light breeze, in the afternoon calm. Temperature 88° Several Swallows or Martins flew on board. 2nd N. Lat. 23° 33' E. Lon. 125° 52' Temperature 88° Sea calm. Weather clear. Many birds about. 3rd N. Lat. 24° 5' E. Lon. 126° 29' W? CNE C½ Beating. Av. 4 kn Made Ty-piu-san, one of the Meia-co-sima Group, and ran up within five or six miles of it before tacking. It is rather low land, and looks sun- burnt, of a light marsh hue. The island Ykiwa does not exist, at least we passed over the position assigned to it. In the tow-net today I get several Porpites, Velella etc. and a few Ons- taceæ. In the evening a booby (P. Sula) flew on board and was caught. In its craw were several fishes of the genus Hemirhampus, each about seven inches long. 4th N. Lat. 24° 37' E. Lon. 126° 4' Av. 3 kn Temp. 86° Beating against an C.N.E. breeze, very light had the booby stuffed. 5th N. Lat. 24° 42' E. Lon. 126° 31' Nearly calm Temp. 87° A light Northerly wind springing up in the evening. 6th N. Lat. 25° 10' E. Lon. 128° 3' W? N.NW C½ ENE Av. 4 kn. At noon we were about 50 miles to the South- ward of Pt. Loo Choo. At sunset a great num-