The fact of the time when the weather was the worst, having been the same at Port Essington, and in the Victoria; and of the French discovery ships meeting it in Torres Strait first, shows the westerly course of the storm.

Its northern edge did not reach Coepang, but a strong gale from the south-west on the 26th showed that it was passing.
Most probably it took a more southerly course before reaching Timor.* (*Footnote.

We were informed at Timor that hurricanes were never felt there, but occur once in four or five years to the southward of it.

It may be added that a vessel lost her top-masts in the Port Essington hurricane, near Sandalwood Island, and that to the southward of Java hurricanes occur frequently.) I passed the night on shore, making observations for latitude, and in the hope also of being able to obtain another specimen of the new small kangaroo, that being the time when it is generally to be found on the move.

But I did not succeed in this object; and failed also in my expectation of knocking over one of a large kind seen in the interior.