i 9 3 OSBEGR'S VOYAGE. 



floops of the Europeans pafs free with their 

 flags, to the factory, where the cuflom-houfe 

 officers receive them. 



If any one goes from a fhip to Canton, and 

 fhews the Tiapp which the Mandarin gave 

 him, in each of the two firfl cuftom-houfes, an 

 oblong red feal is put upon it ; but in the lad 

 cuflom-houfc the Tiapp is left. Returning 

 from Canton, you obtain a Tiapp from the In- 

 terpreter, and a Comprador goes with you to 

 the next cuftom-houfe, where you are fearched, 

 and the Tiapp is fealed : in the other cuilom- 

 houfes they obferve the fame method as in the 

 going to Canton. 



To go with the tide to Canton, and likewife 

 down with it, is by far the moft expeditions 

 and agreeable way. In coming from the fhips, 

 the firfl cuflom-houfe is on the right hand, not 

 far from them, and is called — 



The Wampu Tiapp-houfe by the Europeans ; in 

 the Chine fe language it is called Huamp-Siogim. 

 Near the entry flood a Pomegranate Tree, 

 Eibifcus mutabilis, Rofa Indica, Z$c. Huampu 

 is a little town behind the cuflom-houfe, hav- 

 ing 



