400 SAFE ANCHORAGE. (Cuar. X XI. 
hours more we arrived at a safe anchorage. The 
fever, which I had scarcely felt during all this ex- 
citement, now returned with greater violence, and 
I was heartily glad to go below and turn into my 
bed. 
During the night I heard a great noise on board, 
but was too feverish and weak to make any in- 
quiries as to the cause. In the morning my 
servant informed me that it was occasioned by the 
arrival of three junks during the night, which had 
been chased to the entrance of the harbour by the 
pirates; there had, he said, originally been four in 
company, but one of them had been taken. 
The sailors on board these junks had not been so 
fortunate as we had been, for several of them were 
severely wounded, and I was now asked to extract 
the balls. The wounds were large and ragged, 
owing to the iron shot which the Chinese use in 
their guns. I advised the wounded men to hurry 
on to Chusan, where they would get good medical 
advice. 
Up to nine o’clock in the morning, although the 
wind and tide were both favourable, there were no 
signs of the junks getting under weigh ; I therefore - 
sent for the captain, and inquired if it was not his 
intention to proceed. He told me that he had had 
a meeting with the captains of the other vessels, 
and that they had determined to get a convoy of 
war junks from the mandarin before they went on. 
Being now within eighty or ninety miles of Chusan, 
I could easily hire a small boat for that distance, 
