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A VOYAGE TO 



'779- harbour, where they may wood and water, and take in fuch 

 other refrefhments as the place may afford. Toward the 

 end of June, they will fhape their courfe for the Shum- 

 magins, and from thence to Cook's River, purchafing, as 

 they proceed, as many fkins as they are able, without 

 lofing too much time, fince they ought to fleer again to the 

 Southward, and trace the coaft with great accuracy from 

 the latitude of 56 to 50 , the fpace from which we were 

 driven out of fight of land by contrary winds. It mould 

 here be remarked, thai I confider the purchafe of fkins, in 

 this expedition, merely as a fecondary object, for defraying 

 the expence ; and it cannot be doubted, from our experience 

 in the prefent voyage, that two hundred and fifty fkins, 

 worth one hundred dollars each, may be procured without 

 any lofs of time ; efpecially as it is probable they will be 

 met with along the coaft to the Southward of Cook's River. 



Having fpent three months on the coaft of America, they 

 will fet out on their return to China early in the month of 

 October, avoiding in their route, as much as poffible, the 

 tracks of former navigators. I have now only to add, that 

 if the fur trade fhould become a fixed object of Indian com- 

 merce, frequent opportunities will occur of completing 

 whatever may be left unfinished, in the voyage of which I 

 have here ventured to delineate the outlines. 



The barter which had been carrying on with the Chinefe 

 for our fea-otter fkins, had produced a very whimfical 

 change in the drefs of all our crew. On our arrival in the 

 Typa, nothing could exceed the ragged appearance both of 

 the younger officers and feamen ; for, as our voyage had 

 already exceeded, by near a twelvemonth, the time it was 

 at firlt imagined we mould remain at fea, almoft the whole 



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