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'7-0; our bufinefs to follow our confort. We foon after patted 

 1 1 vc _ '. the rock marked R, in Lord Anfon's Plate; but, inftead of 

 hauling up to the Northward of the grand Ladrone Iiland, 

 as was done in the Centurion, we proceeded to leeward. 



It is hardly necefTary to caution the mariner not to take 

 this courfe, as the danger is fufficiently obvious ; for fhould 

 the wind blow ftrong, and the current fct with it, it will 

 be extremely difficult to fetch Macao. Indeed we might, 

 with great fafety, by the direction of Mr. Dalrymple's map, 

 have gone either intirely to the North of the Lema ifles, or 

 between them, and made the wind fair for Macao. Our 

 fears of miffing this port, and being forced to Batavia, 

 added to the ftrong and eager defires of hearing news from 

 Europe, made us rejoice to fee the Rcfolution foon after fire 

 a gun, and hoift her colours as a fignal for a pilot. On 

 repeating the fignal, we faw an excellent race between four 

 Chirrefe boats ; and Captain Gore, having engaged with the 

 man who arrived firfl, to carry the fhip to the Typa, for 

 thirty dollars, fent me word, that, as we could eafily fol- 

 low, that expence might be faved to us. Soon after, a fe- 

 cond pilot getting on board the Rcfolution, infifted on con- 

 dueling the fhip, and, without further ceremony, laid hold 

 of the wheel, and began to order the fails to be trimmed. 

 This occafioned a violent difputc, which at laft was compro- 

 mifed, by their agreeing to go mares in the money. At 

 noon, the latitude, by obfervation, was 21* 57' North, and 

 longitude 114° 2' Eaft ; the grand Ladrone ifland extending 

 from North Weft half North, to North half Weft, diftant 

 four miles. The land of which the bearings are here given, 

 we conceived to be one ifland ; but afterward found the 

 Weftern part to be the ifland marked z in Mr. Dalrymple's 

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