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^ ^iv ^' with fine weather. Saw lying in the Typa two large fhips 



' ' under French colours : one of which I found to be a 



November, thirty-two gun frigate, and the other an armed ftore-fhip : 

 ene.n. ^j-j^jj. (Jeftjnation, after leaving this, is generally fuppofed 



to be to the iiland of Formofa, where it is believed the 



French mean to get a footing. 



About feven in the morning the boat returned, having 

 finifhed her bulinefs. The officer in her brought me a 

 letter from captain Dixon, informing me of his fafe ar- 

 . rival in China ; and that in confequence of cargoes being 

 procured for our two fhips, he had proceeded up to Wam- 

 poa, where the Nootka was alfo arrived from Prince 

 William's Sound, and a fhip called the Imperial Eagle, com- 

 manded by a captain Berkley, from King George's Sound; 

 Englifli property ; under Imperial colours. We heard 

 of two veffels from India to the North Weft coafl being 

 miffing; the one commanded bv a captain Peters, and 

 the other by a captain Tipping ; moft likely cut off by 

 the natives of that coafl:. After receivino; on board for 

 the ufe of the fhip's company 257 pounds of frefh beef 

 and fome vegetables, fent the boat on ffiore again to get 

 a pilot for the fhip to Wampoa. 



Thurfdayaz. LiGHT winds at North by Weft:, with pleafant weather ; 

 in the afternoon moored fhip with the kedge anchor ; ar- 

 rived on board nine feamen, late belonging to the ffiip 

 Imperial Eagle, and two late of the Nootka, to take a 

 paffage to Wampoa. 



Friday 23. Moderate breezes from the North North Eaft:, with 



fair pleafant M'eather. At feven in the evening the pilot 



came 



