222 January 1853- Japanese & Chinese Seas along the coast of Oshima, passing several fine harbors. At noon we were in N. lat. 28° 06' E. lon. 129° 30' Heading S½ brig 5 knots Wind N.W. Cloudy Temp. 58° At dark we had passed the island of Hakiroma, and were running due South, so as to pass to the eastward of Lo Choo, on our way to Hong Kong, for which port we are now bound, direct. My time employed in cataloguing and packing a way the shells of Kikaia and Oshima. 28th N. lat. 26° 04' E. lon. 125° 39' Heading S.W. 6kn. Wind N. Temp. 58° Weather fine. The sea exceedingly smooth; the breeze light but fair, sending us steadily along on our course. At noon the distant land of Lo Choo was seen to the N.W. 26th N. lat. 24° 12' E. lon. 125° 56' Heading S.W. Av. 9 knots, Wind N.E. Temp. 68° Weather cloudy. At night the wind increased into a gale. 25th N. lat. 22° 15' E. lon. 122° 26' Heading S.W. Av. 9 knot Temp. 62° Wind N.E. Blowing a gale. We are speeding a long toward our port, sometimes going 10 or 11 knots, under topsails and foresail, with the wind dead aft. In the afternoon we passed close to windward of Hotel Tobago Xima, and in the night hauled to the Southward, around the south end of Formosa, passing between Gadd's rocks and the "Vale rota", into the China Sea. 28th Sunday. N. lat. 21° 34' E. lon. 119° 07' Heading W½ 8kn. Wind N.E. Temp. 66° 223 January 1853- Chinese Sea Before morning we were on our course (N.W.) again for New Kong. The breeze continued very stiff, causing the ship to roll heavily, and preventing us from doing any work. 29th N. lat. 2° 41' E. lon. 114° 57' Heading W. 7kn. Wind N.E. Temp. 60° During the forenoon the weather cleared, and the wind became light, though still to the N.N.E. We made the Chinese coast, extending some distance to the Northward of Talang. We took a pilot in the afternoon, and soon found ourselves in the Bay to the Northward of Grand Lema I. At sunset we passed the "Nine pins", then Santoo, having the east- erm extremity of Hong Kong Island on our port beam. The wind becoming still lighter, at nine o'clock we were becalmed just below Ly-ee-moon passage. With light airs we managed to work up through this pass, and the bay above it; and anchored in Hong Kong Harbor, off the Naval Store-House, just after midnight, having made the short passage of six days from Oshima. Hong Kong. The "Porpoise" has not been heard of here, and this extinguishes in our minds the last hope we entertain- ed of her safety. The sad thought that she is totally lost, with all on board, including some of the fastest friends I had in the Expedition, can no longer be re- pressed.