402 SAIL FOR CHUSAN. [Cuap. XX. 
will only go with us, we will run into Chusan 
harbour and leave you there before we cross over 
to Ningpo.” Upon this assurance I agreed to ac- 
company them. : 
The captains of the other junks now came to me 
and asked me if I would undertake to protect them 
all from the attacks of the pirates; as, if so, they 
would get under weigh and go with us also. Upon 
my telling them that I could not undertake to do 
this, they told me that they must wait until some 
arrangement could be made with the mandarins, 
as they were afraid to proceed alone. We therefore 
left them at anchor, and proceeded on our voyage. 
During the day we frequently saw suspicious- 
looking craft, which were pronounced by the crew 
to be Jan-dous; but none of them were near 
enough to attack us. Late in the afternoon, as 
we approached Keto-point—a promontory of the 
main-land near Chusan—we met a large fleet 
of merchant junks sailing together for mutual pro- 
tection on their way down. Some of them came 
alongside us, and made anxious inquiries regarding 
the Jan-dous, and how many of them they might 
expect to meet with. Our people did not fail to 
give them an exaggerated account of the number 
we had seen and fought with, and the news did 
not appear greatly to delight them. During the 
night the tide turned against us; and as the wind, 
although fair, was light, we were obliged to anchor 
until morning. | 
When I went on deck at daylight the following 
