then away eastwards across the N of the island of Naha, made itself perfectly perceptible on the coast of China at a distance of more than 500 nautical miles.
Sardinia (P. & O.), Captain. O. Siggers.—This report states that even at a long distance the cyclone gave warning of its presence by serious and even threatening signs. They were so obvious, that when just out of the Formosa Strait, as the weather was getting rapidly worse, the Captain announced to his consignees, by wireless message, that he had to change his course, as a typhoon was coming and threatening to cut the way along the coast. It was indeed impossible on board a ship isolated at sea to foresee the winding movement which the storm was about to trace, and there was every reason to believe, that it would continue to travel westwards by the north of the Meiaco-Sima group, to strike the coast somewhere near Foochow.
After a stay in Shanghai, the steamer left Woosung, on the 17th at 4 p.m. but was forced to put back on the 19th, as the same cyclone was starting this time across the Yellow Sea, in a NW direction, by the N. of Oshima. The Kou-Ka-za wireless warning having been received on board, the captain, near the 125th meridian seeing the threatening aspect of the weather, and the increasing wind from NE or NNE with a big swell from ENE wisely conjectured that his route was converging towards the path of the storm, and he left for good only when the centre had crossed the Goto Is. making for the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan. We have seen that several japanese steamers had been twice in contact with that same typhoon.
Shun-tien. (C.N.) Captain C.A. Christiansen.—This report does not add much to above information, but gives to it an interesting confirmation. Just at the mouth of the Yangtze, on the 10th, strong: NE winds were experienced, an abnormal direction at that time, then rain and fog, and chiefly that heavy and characteristic swell that accompanied the steamer as far as Shantung.
Tjiliwong, (3.C. Jap. L.). Captain P. Abbo.—Gutzlaff and Steep Is. were passed on the 12th. Strong N to NNE winds with hard squalls were observed, together with a long, heavy swell from ESE down to lat. 28°30'; there the swell backed to E and ENE at lat. 26°: it was distinctly diverging from the centre of the typhoon; the pressure was only a little below 731mm. In the Formosa Strait began a long and distinct undulation from the south, but this was due to another disturbance.
Tung-chow (C.N.) Captain W. Mc Intosh.—During the voyage towards Tientsin, on the 12th, the only unusual thing was the wind from NE changing for NNE on the 13th at noon. On the 14th, fresh breezes from NNW were met with in the Gulf of Pechihli, showing that the vortex made itself felt in the atmosphere even at that distant place (some 850 nautical miles).
