400 cook's voyage to jan. 



by near a twelvemonth, the time it was at first 

 imagined we should remain at sea, almost the whole 

 of our original stock of European clothes had been 

 long worn out, or patched up with skins, and the 

 various manufactures we had met with in the course 

 of our discoveries. These were now again mixed 

 and eked out with the gaudiest silks and cottons of 

 China. 



On the 30th, Mr. Lannyon arrived with the stores 

 and provisons, which were immediately stowed in 

 due proportion on board the two ships. The next 

 day, agreeably to a bargain made by Captain Gore, 

 I sent our sheet anchor to the country ship, and 

 received in return the guns, which she before rode 



by- 



Whilst we lay in the Typa, I was shown a garden 

 belonging to an English gentleman at Macao, the 

 rock, under which, as the tradition there goes, the 

 poet Camoens used to sit and compose his Lusiad. 

 It is a lofty arch, of one solid stone, and forms the 

 entrance of a grotto dug out of the rising ground 

 behind it. The rock is overshaded by large spread- 

 ing trees, and commands an extensive and magnificent 

 view of the sea, and the interspersed islands. 



On the 11th of January, two seamen belonging to 

 the Resolution found means to run off* with a six- 

 oared cutter, and notwithstanding diligent search 

 was made, both that and the following day, we were 

 never able to learn any tidings of her. It was sup- 

 posed, that these people had been seduced by the 

 prevailing notion of making a fortune, by returning 

 to the fur islands. 



As we heard nothing, during our stay in the 

 Typa, of the measurement of the ships, it may be 

 concluded, that the point so strongly contested by 

 the Chinese, in Lord Anson's time, has, in conse- 

 quence of his firmness and resolution, never since 

 been insisted on. 



