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us a pilot, which, however, we declined, as it was our 

 business to follow our consort. 



" We rejoiced to see the Resolution soon after fire a gun, 

 and hoist her colours as a signal for a pilot. On repeating j 

 the signal, we saw an excellent race between four Chinese | 

 boats ; and Captain Gore, having engaged with the man 

 who arrived first to carry the ship to the Typa for thirty I 

 dollars, sent me word that as we could easily follow, that ! 

 expense might be saved to us. Soon after a second pilot, 

 getting on board the Resolution, insisted on conducting the 

 ship, and, without farther ceremony, laid hold of the 

 wheel, and began to order the sails to be trimmed. This 

 occasioned a violent dispute, which at last was com- 

 promised by agreeing to go shares in the money. 



" In obedience to the instructions given to Captain Cook 

 by the Board of Admiralty, it now became necessary to 

 demand of the officers and men their journals, and what 

 other papers they might have in their possession, relating 

 to the history of our voyage. The execution of these orders 

 seemed to require some delicacy as well as firmness. As< 

 soon, therefore, as I had assembled the ship's company on 

 deck, I acquainted them with the orders we had received, 

 and the reasons which I thought ought to induce them to ; 

 yield a ready obedience. At the same time I told them 

 that any papers which they were desirous not to have sent j 

 to the Admiralty should be sealed up in their presence, and | 

 kept in my own custody, till the intentions of the Board, ! 

 with regard to the publication of the history of the voyage, I 

 were fulfilled, after which they should faithfully be restored Ij 

 back to them. 



" It is with the greatest satisfaction I can relate that my | 

 proposals met with the approbation and the cheerful com- | 

 pliance both of the officers and men ; and I am persuaded j 

 that every scrap of paper containing any transactions relat- | 

 ing to the voyage were given up. Indeed, it is doing bare 

 justice to the seamen of this ship to declare, that they \ 

 were the most obedient and the best disposed men I ever 

 knew, though almost all of them were very young, and ! 

 had never before served in a ship of war. 



" We kept working to windward till six in the evening, 

 when we came to anchor on the 1st of December. 



" In the evening of the 2nd, Captain Gore sent me on 

 shore to visit the Portuguese Governor, and to request 

 his assistance in procuring refreshments for our crews. At 

 the same time I took a list of the naval stores, of which 

 both vessels were greatly in want, with an intention ol 

 proceeding immediately to Canton and applying to the 

 servants of the East India Company, who were at that 



