Produced by Jane Hyland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: SULPHUR ISLAND. _Published Jany. 1. 1818. by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London._] ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE WEST COAST OF COREA, AND THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND; WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING CHARTS, AND VARIOUS HYDROGRAPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. BY CAPTAIN BASIL HALL, ROYAL NAVY, F.R.S. LOND. & EDIN. MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF CALCUTTA, OF THE LITERARY SOCIETY OF BOMBAY, AND OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT BATAVIA. AND A VOCABULARY OF THE LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE, BY H.J. CLIFFORD, ESQ. LIEUTENANT ROYAL NAVY. LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1818. TO CAPTAIN MURRAY MAXWELL, Knight Companion to the Bath, TO WHOSE ABILITY IN CONDUCTING THIS VOYAGE, ZEAL IN GIVING ENCOURAGEMENT TO EVERY INQUIRY, SAGACITY IN DISCOVERING THE DISPOSITION OF THE NATIVES, AND ADDRESS IN GAINING THEIR CONFIDENCE AND GOOD WILL, IS TO BE ATTRIBUTED WHATEVER MAY BE FOUND INTERESTING OR USEFUL IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHORS. PREFACE. The following work contains a Narrative of the Voyage to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-choo Island; an Appendix, containing Nautical details; and a Vocabulary of the Language spoken at Loo-choo. In drawing up the Narrative from journals written at the time, I have derived great assistance from notes made by Lieutenant H.J. Clifford, of the Navy. This officer obtained permission from the Admiralty to accompany me, though on half pay, and having no specific duty to perform, he was enabled to devote himself entirely to the acquisition of knowledge; and had it in his power to record many interesting occurrences of the voyage, which the numerous duties of my station left me but little leisure to observe or describe. All the Charts, Tables, and Nautical Notices have been placed in an Appendix, in order to avoid the interruption which such details are apt to occasion when inserted in a journal; and the Nautical reader will perhaps consider it advantageous, to have this part of the subject set apart, and condensed, instead of being scattered over the pages of the narrative. I am indebted to Mr. Clifford for very important assistance in collecting and arranging the materials which form this Appendix. The northern part of the Chart of the Yellow Sea, given in the Appendix, was taken from a Chart by Captain Daniel Ross, of the Bombay marine, the scientific and able surveyor commanding the squadron which the Honourable East India Company, in the spirit of a liberal and enlarged policy, have employed for upwards of nine years, in surveying the China Seas.