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"A MYSTERIOUS SYSTEM": TOPOGRAPHICAL FIDELITY AND THE CHARTING OF IMPERIALISM IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S SIAMESE WATERS (3).
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20000922
Author:LARABEE, MARK D.
(27) The area attracted British interest at the time because Captain John Washington, appointed Hydrographer of the Navy in 1855, championed nearby Singapore for a proposed naval base; see Sir Archibald Day, The Admiralty Hydrographic Service 1795-1919 (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1967), p. 68. The first comprehensive nautical survey of the gulf started in 1856, undertaken for the British Hydrographic Office by Staff Commander John Richards in HMS Saracen. Richards and his crew covered 1,000 miles of coastline in only 20 months and earned the praise of Findlay, who remarks ...
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