70 OS BECK'S VOYAGE, 



a piaftre w a day for -an open room and an 

 ordinary. To this if yon add fome other un- 

 avoidable expences,, the income of three thou- 

 fand copper dollars * for the whole voyage to 

 China will not admit of many more amufe- 

 ments on fhore. 



February the ioth. 



This morning I left the town with an inten- 

 tion to go on board our ftiip ; but a hidden 

 cad-wind made us pafs her, and brought us 

 to Cadiz, where, to our great furprize, we 

 landed at nine o'clock the next morning. The 

 way by land is much longer ; but you pafs 

 through two little infignificant towns, Puerto 

 Real and Chiclana. 



I was glad to come from the boiflerous 

 fea into an agreeable gaftlen ; the fummer- 

 houfes of which were covered with our com- 

 mon ivy (Hedera helix), called Tedra in Spa- 

 nifh. 



w Rather more than four (hillings fterling. 

 x A Copper dollar is about five pence, or five pence half- 

 penny fierling. 



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