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request their assistance in procuring me a passport, 

 and in forwarding the stores we wanted, of which I 

 sent them a list, as expeditiously as possible. 



The next morning I was accompanied on board by 

 our countryman, who pointing out to us the situation 

 of the Typa, we weighed at half past six, and stood 

 toward it; but the wind failing, we came to, at eight, 

 in three and a half fathoms' water ; Macao, bearing 

 west north-west, three miles distant ; the Grand 

 Ladrone south-east by south. The Resolution here 

 saluted the Portugueze fort with eleven guns, which 

 were returned by the same number. Early on the 

 4th, we again weighed, and stood into the Typa, 

 and moored with the stream anchor and cable to the 

 westward. 



Tiie Comprador whom we at first engaged with, 

 having disappeared with a small sum of money, which 

 had been given him to purchase provisions, we con- 

 tracted with another, who continued to supply both 

 ships, during our whole stay. This was done secretly, 

 and in the night time, under pretence that it was 

 contrary to the regulations of the port; but we sus- 

 pected all this caution to have been used with a view 

 either of enhancing the price of the articles he fur- 

 nished, or of securing to himself the profits of his 

 employment, without being obliged to share them 

 with the Mandarines, 



On the 9th Captain Gore received an answer from 

 the Committee of the English supercargoes at Canton, 

 in which they assured him that their best endeavours 

 should be used to procure the supplies we stood in 

 need of, as expeditiously as possible ; and that a pass- 

 port should be sent for one of his officers, hoping at 

 the same time, that we were sufficiently acquainted 

 with the character of the Chinese government, to 

 attribute any delays, that might unavoidably happen, 

 to their true cause. 



The day following, an English merchant, from one 

 of our settlements in the East Indies, applied to 



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