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CHAP. IX. 



WORKING UP TO MACAO. A CHINESE COMPRADOR. SENT 



ON SHORE TO VISIT THE PORTUGUEZE GOVERNOR. EF- 

 FECTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE WE RECEIVED FROM EUROPE. 



ANCHOR IN THE TYPA. PASSAGE UP TO CANTON. BOCCA. 



TYGRIS. WAMPU. — DESCRIPTION OF A SAMPANE. RE- 

 CEPTION AT THE ENGLISH FACTORY. INSTANCE OF THE 



SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER OF THE CHINESE. OF THEIR 



MODE OF TRADING. OF THE CITY OF CANTON. ITS 



SIZE. POPULATION. NUMBER OF SAMPANES. MILI- 

 TARY FORCE. OF THE STREETS AND HOUSES. VISIT TO 



A CHINESE. RETURN TO MACAO. GREAT DEMAND FOR 



THE SEA-OTTER SKINS. PLAN OF A VOYAGE FOR OPEN- 

 ING A FUR TRADE ON THE WESTERN COAST OF AMERICA, 

 AND PROSECUTING FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN THE NEIGH- 

 BOURHOOD OF JAPAN. DEPARTURE FROM MACAO. — - 



PRICE OF PROVISIONS IN CHINA. 



We kept working to windward till six in the 

 evening, when we came to anchor, by the direction 

 of the Chinese pilot on board the Resolution, who 

 imagined the tide was setting against us. In this, 

 however, he was much deceived ; as we found, upon 

 making the experiment, that it set to the northward 

 till ten o'clock. The next morning he fell into a 

 similar mistake ; for, at five, on the appearance of 

 slack water, he gave orders to get under weigh ; but 

 the ignorance he had discovered, having put us on 

 our guard, we chose to be convinced, by our own 

 observations, before we weighed ; and, on trying the 

 tide, we found a strong under-tow, which obliged us 

 to keep fast till eleven o'clock. From these circum- 

 stances it appears, that the tide had run down twelve 

 hours. 



During the afternoon, we kept standing on our 

 tacks, between the island of Potoe, and the grand 



