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pilot at Chu-fan. Thefe pilots 
brought with them two marine com- 
paffes ; but they were unprovided 
with charts, or any inftrument for 
afcertaining latitudes. They trutft- 
ed entirely to their local knowledge 
and obfervation; as did the nations 
of old furrounding the Mediterra- 
nean; which the Chinefe feas near- 
ly refembie, both in the narrownefs 
of their boundaries, and in the nu- 
merous iflands with which every 
part of them is ftudded. 
The track of the Lion and Hin- 
doftan, in navigating the Yellow 
Sea, is carefully laid down in the 
charts accompanying the work; 
and on thefe charts are marked not 
only the foundings, but the ftate of 
the marine barometer, and of Fah- 
renheit’s thermometer, in the fhade, 
every day at noon: a precaution 
which renders unneceflary the con- 
tinual repetition of thofe obferva- 
tions in the body ef the work. 
In the courfe of the Hindoftan, 
when feparated from the Lion, fhe 
rceived on Sunday the 14th of 
july, 1793, a {mall {quare-rigged 
European veffel. This was the 
Endeavour brig, Captain Proétor, 
belonging to the Eaft India Com- 
pany, and fent by the Company’s 
commiffioners at Canton, through 
whom the defign of the embafly 
had been communicated to the 
Chinefe court, with diipatches for 
the ambaflador. In the neighbour- 
hood of Tfung-ming, and along the 
coaft of China, Captain Proctor met 
feveral fmall junks, cruizing with 
mandarins on board, to find out and 
welcome the ambaffador, as well as 
to conduct him into port: but they 
feldom went out of the depth of 
two fathoms, not aware that the 
fhip which had his Excellency on 
board, drew about double that quan- 
tity of water. 
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The fquadron, confifting of the 
Lion, Hindoftan, and fackall ten- 
er, came to anchor in feven fa- 
thoms water in a broad bay, a few 
miles diftant from the city-of Ten- 
chdo-foo; the latt fyliable of which 
word always denotes a city of the 
firft order, having feveral middling 
and {mall towns within its jurifdic- 
tion. 
As foon as the governor of Ten- 
choo-foo was informed that the 
ambaflador was on board the Lion, 
he fent to him a prefent, confifting 
of freth provifions and fruit; and 
afterwards came on board to viiit 
him. The governor was attended. 
bya great number of perfons; one 
of whom having had occafion to 
{peak to him as he was pafling along 
the fhip’s deck, immeaiately threw 
himfelf upon his knees, and, in that 
pofture, communicated his bufinefs, 
to the great furprife of the Englifh 
{petators : a furprife that was 
heightened by the undifturbed 
countenance of the governor, as if 
accuftomed to be accofted in that 
manner. The governor of Ten- 
choo-foo, in his interview with the 
ambaiffador, teftified not only great 
politenefs, but much eafe. and affa- 
bility ; and it was apparent upon 
this occafion, as well as from what 
was obferved at Chu-fan, that the 
folemnity of behaviour, attributed 
in many accounts of this country 
as a general character to the Chi- 
nefe, was only an appearance af- 
fumed by them in the prefence of 
thofe whom they confidered as their 
inferiors. 
The governor gave an invitation 
(which was declined) to the ambafla- 
dor and his fuite to entertainments 
and plays on fhore, as indeed had 
done the governor of Chu-fan, in 
order, in fome fmall degree, to cor- 
refpond, as they expreffed it, with 
the 
