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who in the fame manner gets ready every thing 

 required for our fubfiftence, and who is obliged 

 to accompany every perfon going on board, to 

 the next cuftom-houfe, in order to fearch what 

 he takes with him. If any body dies, the Com- 

 prador is to order the funeral : he that was to 

 be the Comprador of our faclory, was called 

 Lufy. 



The 24th of AugufL 



JBocca Tyger, in the Ch'inefe language Vho- 

 hao, the mouth of the Tyger or Fhomunn ; the 

 Tyger, at its opening, is a narrow river, where 

 We anchored about noon for want of wind. On 

 the right hand fide of the entrance, was a low 

 caftle, furrounded by trees; on both fides of it 

 a path afcended the mountain to a fmall houfe ; 

 before which flood a white hut, which is fup- 

 pofed to be a place dedicated to an idol : fome- 

 what further on the left were two caflles on 

 two different hills, furrounded likewife by 

 trees ; the moft outward of them was fur- 

 rounded by warmer, and had a little hut clofe 

 to it : the inner one is higher, fo that it may 

 command the other 8 . 



• See Lord Anfon's Voyage round the World, book iii. 

 chap. 9, 



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