CHAPTEB V. 



Leave Macao for Whampoa — ^Entrance to tlie Bocca Tigris 

 — Country about CTmefl, pee — Scene at Whampoa — Ap- 

 piroacli to Canton — -The town and suburbs— Tfoe sailor's 

 coft'ec-^ho])— SclJing by wt'ig^lit — DwEirf orange treos— Tlite 

 tea shrub —Visit to the celebrated Fa-tce gardens^ — Topics 



The dt^'-gate— Manuiki^ileB— Saodal-wood. 



Ok the 16th of Odi^m 1 left Mi^^ 

 " Cmni mmg^ mooa/* and the felfeiidtigiitoiiikf 

 sailed in the l^dy Hayes, CaptaitK Hector, for 

 Whampoa, which afforded me an excellent 

 opportunity of viewing- tJio seenery of the river. 

 We passed the island of Lintin, oil" which, (in the 

 roadstead, on the north-west side,) a number of 

 ships were lykf at anchor. About ten m. 

 we anchored off Chuen, for the night On 

 the morning following-, as soon as the tide was 

 favonrable, we were again under weigh, and about 



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