178 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



having made a collection for the poor of 3^4 

 dollars in copper r . The pilot whom we got 

 on board, and who brought us in, was to 

 receive twenty pefos duros (four pounds feven 

 fnillings and fixpence), or 200 dollars in cop- 

 per. We had Lantoa on our right and the 

 Southern ifles of Limes on the left : the fea 

 formed high billows rolling in from the ifles, 

 which were quite green with plants, but had 

 no woods. The mod ufual entry of European 

 fliips into China is by the Ladrones, which 

 derive their name from the pirates who former- 

 ly lived upon them. 



Macao is a Portuguese town on an ifle, 

 which was now on our left, but (o far off that 

 we could not fee it : our Spanifi pafTenger left 

 us here, and failed for Macao, from whence he 

 defigned to go to the IJle of Manilla, where he 

 intended to fettle. 



The ifle of hinting was on our left. We 

 were obliged to anchor here, having no wind, 

 and the tide againft us : the nihermen failed by 



. r A dollar in copper is about five-pence or five-pence 

 halfpenny fterling ; thus 334 dollars are about feven pounds 

 tarring. F, 



fattening 



