2 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



trade) I went to Vargoe Hoa/a, in very bad 

 weather, the place where the Eaft India fhips 

 ufually anchor, when Riff and Fcol, and the 

 other creeks in the Gothenburgh rocks, are 

 filled with ice ; by which means they avoid the 

 inconvenience of fawing the ice in order to 

 clear their paffage. The above place, which 

 derives its name from the Hie of Vargoe, or 

 the JJle of Wolves , is a Swedifli mile a and a 

 half from Gothenburgh. I made this journey 

 by land as far as Hinfholm, and there went on- 

 board the Prince Charles, which was the firft 

 three-deck fliip employed by Sweden in the 

 Eaft-India-trade. It was lately built at Stock- 

 holm, and its bulk was 390 tons; it was man- 

 ned with 132 men, almoft ready to fet fail, and 

 bound for Canton in China. 



Wood is much wanted in this country ; 

 and for this reafon the pilots, and all the other 

 iflanders, are obliged to buy this commodity 

 in town, where of late its price is greatly 

 rifen ; or to burn turf, which is dug in paral- 

 lelopipeds, as it was formerly in Holland. In 



a Eleven Swedifli milea make one degree ; confequently 

 two miles are 1 2JL ? or (till nearer 1 2._7_ Englifh miles. F. 



this 



