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of our original flock of European clothes had been lon£ '779- 



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worn out, or patched up with lkins, and the various manufac- ' * — j 



tures we had met with in the courfe of our difcoveries. 

 Thefe were now again mixed and eked out with thcgaudieft 

 filks and cottons of China. 



Oh the 30th, Mr. Lannyon arrived with the flores and Friday 30. 

 provifions, which were immediately flowed in due propor- 

 tion on board the two fhips. The next day, agreeably to a 

 bargain made by Captain Gore, I fent our meet anchor to 

 the country fhip, and received in return the guns, which 

 flie before rode by. 



Whilfl we lay in the Typa, I was fhewn, in a garden be- 

 longing to an Englifh gentleman at Macao, the rock, under 

 which, as the tradition there goes, the poet Camoens ufed 

 to fit and compofe his Lufiad. It is a lofty arch, of one 

 folid ftone, and forms the entrance of a grotto dug out of 

 the rifing ground behind it. The rock is overfhadowed by 

 large fpreading trees, and commands an extenfive and 

 magnificent view of the fea, and the interfperfed iflands. 



On the nth of January, two feamen belonging to the 1 7 8 °- 

 Refolution found means to run off with a fix-oared cutter, Wednef.Tl. 

 and notwithflanding diligent fearch was made, both that 

 and the following day, we 'were never able to learn any 

 tidings of her. It was fuppofed, that thefe people had been 

 feduced by the prevailing notion of making a fortune, by 

 returning to the fur iflands. 



As we heard nothing, during our flay in the Typa, of the 

 meafurement of the fhips, it may be concluded, that the 

 point fo flrongly contefled by the Chinefe, in Lord Anfon's 

 time, has, in confequence of his firmnefs and refolution, 

 never fince been infilled on. 



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