THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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CHAP. IX. 



Working up to Macao. — A Chinefe Comprador. — Sent on 

 Shore to vifet the Portuguese Governor. — Effitls cf ' t/j\c 

 Intelligence we received from Europe. — A?tchor in the 

 Typa. — Pajfage up to Canton. — Bocca Tygris. — Wampd. 

 — Defcription of a Sampane. — Reception at the Englijh 

 Factory . — Inflance of the fufpicious Char abler of the 

 Chinefe. — Of their Mode of trading. — Of the City of 

 Canton. — Its Size. — Populatio?i. — Number of Sam- 

 pa7ies. — Military Force. — Of the Streets and Houfes. 

 — Vifit to a Chinefe. — Return to Macao. — Great De- 

 mand for the Sea- otter Skins. — Plan of a Voyage for 

 opening a Fur Trade on the Weflem Coafl of America^ 

 and prof editing further Difcoveries in the Neighbour- 

 hood of fapan. — Departure from Macao. — Price of 

 Provifons in China. 



JE kept working to windward till fix in the evening, ^J/j* 

 when we came to anchor, by the direction of the 

 Chinefe pilot on board the Refolution, who imagined the 

 tide was fetting againfl: us. In this, however; he was much 

 deceived ; as we found, upon making the experiment, that 

 it fet to the Northward till ten o'clock. The next morn- December 

 ing he fell into a fimilar millakc ; for, at five, on the ap- 

 pearance of flack water, he gave orders to get under way ; 

 but the ignorance he had difcovcred, having put us on our 



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November. 

 Tuefday 30. 



Wednef, i. 



