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3i>4 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.

ful moment to us all. The lads cheered me as we quitted the
vessel." Lord Valentia proceeded to England, and the 'Pan-
ther ' returned to Bombay.
A large space of coast-line, and many islands were visited
for the first time by the 'Panther' and ' Assaye,' and their
positions were laid down, the names of those concerned in the
survey being identified with some of the discoveries, as Court's
Passage, Valentia Island, Annesley Bay (his lordship's family
name), Antelope Bay, Panther Bay, Assaye Bay also Port
;
Mornington and Wellesley Islands, after the Governor-
General, and Duncan Islands, in honour of the Governor of
Bombay. The results of the survey made by Lieutenants
Court and Maxfield, in the 'Panther' and 'Assaye,' were em-
bodied in a chart, in two sheets, which may be found in Lord
Valentia's work, and, considering the short time actually em-
ployed in the survey, and the miserably inadequate means at
their disposal, the soundings and positions laid down show the
result of a careful and comprehensive examination most
creditable to those concerned. Lieutenant Maxfield, for his
chart of Massowah and neighbouring coast, received a grant of
600 rupees from the Government, and his two assistants.
Lieutenant Crawford and Acting-Lieutenant Hurst, were each
awarded 200 rupees. In this chart of the Red Sea by Lieu-
tenants Court and Maxfield, are laid down, not only the course
of the ' Panther ' and ' Assaye,' but the track of the Hon.
Company's cruiser 'Swallow' in 1776, of the 'Venus' in 1787,
and of the 'Panther' in 1795, under Lieutenant R. White,
when Mr. Court was second lieutenant of that ship.
Even more important than this survey of the Red Sea, which
was not of a sufficiently detailed character to fulfil the require-
ments of the navigator, was the admirable survey of the China
Seas made by the officers of the Marine.
In 1806, Lieutenant Daniel Ross, accompanied by Lieu-
tenant Philip Maughan,* proceeded in the 'Antelope' to
China for the purpose of surveying those seas, and ascer-
taining the fate of two cruisers of the Service, the 'In-
trepid,' Captain Roper, and ' Comet,' Captain Henry, which,
as the reader will remember, had been despatched to inquir'e
after the Hon. Company's ship ' Talbot,' but themselves were
never heard of, though it is supposed they were lost on the
fatal Paracels.
Lieutenants Ross and Maughan commenced their arduous
task with the coasts east and west of Macao, from Tienpak
westward, to the Lema Islands eastward, the various islands
* Lieutenant Pliilip Maughan—there were three officers of the name of
Maughan in the Service, William, Jacob, and Philip—had already done good
service as a Surveyor, for in 1804- he had made a chart of the Gt-ulf of Cutcli, for
which the Government awarded him 1,000 rupees " as an encouragement to
others to emulate his praiseworthy conduct."