the V O Y 
Dollars in an Hat, and gave them to him y upon which he 
came into the Ship, and took us in Charge, and earned 
us through the narrow Chanel, and, at Sun-fet, brought 
us to an Anchor : The next Morning we weighed again, 
and kept the Main-land of China clofe aboard and, at 
Noon, he brought us abreaft of Pulo Lantoon , from whence 
we could fee two Englijh Ships under Sail, who were paffing 
by the Ifland of Macao , in their Way from the River of 
Canton. They took no Notice of us, and kept on their 
Way : This made us very uneafy, fearing that we fhouid 
mifs of a Paffage to -England this Sealbn. The next Day, 
in the Afternoon, we anchored in the Road of Macao , 
near the Entrance of the River of Canton , which we never 
fhouid have found out by any of our Charts. I much ad- 
mire at the Incorre&iefs with which thefe Coafts are laid 
down to the Eaftward of Pulo Lantoon for there runs a 
Clufter of Elands, extending upwards of twenty Leagues, 
which are not in the leaf!; taken notice of by our Hydro- 
graphers ; nor did I ever meet with any Navigator that 
knew -any thing of them. The Coaft of China , near them, 
is rocky, mountainous, and barren ; but, as to the particu- 
lar Situation of thefe Ides, my Sicknefs hindered all the 
Obfervation I fhouid have made of them. Macao being 
a Place where Ships always flop for a Pilot to carry them 
up the River of Canton , I fent an Officer with a Compli- 
ment to the Governor, and with Orders to bring off a Pilot 
with him but I heard nothing of him till the next Morn- 
ing, which gave me many difquiet Apprehenfions. 
Early the next Morning, there came off a great many 
of the Succejs’ s People ; I was amazed at the Sight of them, 
add was at firft very glad to fee them ; but my Mind 
changed a little when 1 heard their Story ; wherein they ac- 
quainted me, that their Commander Clipper ton had left me 
designedly ; that they went diredly to Guam , one of the 
Padrone Hands, where they were very well refreffied and 
fupplied with Provifions ; that their Captain there fold the 
Governor a great Quantity of Powder and Shot, and feve- 
ral other valuable Things ; and permitted the Marquis of 
Villa Rocha to go affiore, with Mr. Godfrey the Agent, 
and a marine Officer, who went to fettle the Accounts. 
As foon as they were landed, and the Boat came off again. 
Captain Clipperton weighed with his Ship, in order to at- 
tack a Ship of twenty Guns from Manilla, which had lain 
quietly in the Road with them all the time till now : In 
approaching her, he ran his Ship upon the Rocks, and 
foon found the Enemy was prepared j for they had raifed 
two Batteries, of half the Ship’s Guns, to receive him. I 
am almoft affiamed to relate this Man’s Behaviour in this 
Skirmifh •, for Clipperton , perceiving his Cafe defperate, 
and the Lofs of his Ship pafl Redemption, had recourfe to 
his Cafe of Brandy for a Supply of Spirits, to animate him 
in making a vigorous Defence ; but he took fo abundantly 
of that intoxicating Cordial, that he, in aninftant, became 
dead-drunk, tumbled down on the Deck, and fnored out 
his Time in a beaftiy Manner, whilft his firft Lieutenant, 
Davifon , undertook the Command of the Ship, which he 
bravely executed till he was killed. He was fucceeded by 
Captain Cooke, their fecond Lieutenant, who made a gal- 
lant Refiftance, and got the Ship afloat again, after fhe had 
lain on the Rock forty-eight Hours, all which Time Clip- 
perton had been loft between fieeping, and drinking as fall 
its he waked ; fo that he did not recover himfelf, till they 
were out at Sea. Thus they loft their Prifoner the Marquis 
de la Villa Rocha , and alfo Mr. Godfrey , the Agent-general, 
and one of their Marine Officers j which gave the Ship’s 
Company fuch a Diftafte of Clipperton , that they would 
not fuffer him to have the Command of them, but locked 
him up in his Cabin, and intreated Captain Cooke to take 
the Command of the Ship. They endured bad Weather 
between Guam and Amoy, in China , whither they got with 
much Difficulty : There they made a Dividend of all they 
had taken, half to the Owners, and half to the Ship’s Com- 
pany. From thence Captain Clipperton defigned for the 
Streights of Malacca \ but his People, fearing he had no 
good Intention in his Plead, would go no farther than Ma- 
cao, that being a Chriftian Port. They told me, the Gen- 
tlemen Adventurers in England were much obliged to the 
Governor of this Place ; who, being informed that Clip- 
perton could not be prevailed on to remit their Effeds 
AGE S of , Book I.- 
Home in the Englijh Ships lying at Canton , obliged him 
to fend what belonged to them in one of their own Ships, 
which was ready to depart for Lisbon: There he fold his 
Ship the Succejs for about 1000 /. Sterling. I muft ob- 
ferve on this Paffage, that whatever thefe Officers told hiiir* 
in Excui^ of themleives, the Fabts were quite .otherwiie, 
as appears in the foregoing Sedion ; where it is fully ffiewri, 
that Captain Clipperton fent the Money to the Owners of 
his own Motive, and would have brought the Ship Home, 
if he had not been hindered. But to return to the Cap- 
tain’s Relation. On the 12th, about Noon, a Pilot came 
off to us, and we immediately Weighed, and entered the 
River of Canton, being allured, that there ftill remained 
fome European Ships at Wampo, where they lie in this Ri- 
ver, about ten Miles fhort of the City of Canton. We were 
four Days plying up to the P.oad, between the lower Bars 5 
where, finding the Bonetta and Raftings, two Englijh Indian 
Traders, I anchored, and fent an Officer, to defire then! 
to inftrud us how to behave ourfelves in this Port, and to 
acquaint me with the Cuftoms of it : To which they am 
fwered, that fmee the Cadogan and Francis, two European 
Englijh . Ships, were lying at Wampo, they would advife 
me to fend up to their Eadories at Canton , to acquaint them 
of our Arrival, and the Reafons which obliged me to 
come thither : Which I accordingly did the next Day, and 
borrowed one of their Flags the next Day, to hoift in our 
Boat, without which we fhouid have met with great Trou- 
ble from the Hoppomen , or- Cuftom-houfe Officers. I 
fent, by my Officer, Letters to the Captains of the Englijh 
Ships, fignifying the Neceffity which forced me into thofe 
Parts ; and defired they would, as far as in them lay, fuc- 
cour and proted us ; affuring them, that I abted by virtue 
of his Majefty’s Commiffion, which I alfo fent to them, 
that they might perufe it. I weighed the next Morning, 
and worked up to Wampo , where I found, befides two 
Englijh Ships, three French ones, viz. the Galatea , the 
Prince of Conti, and the Maur \ and alfo one Oftender , and 
a fmall Ship from Manilla. Here I was in Hopes that all 
my Troubles would have ended, and that I fhouid have 
had full Leifure to refrefh myfelf after fo many and great 
Fatigues : But I foon found, that thefe Expectations were 
very ill-grounded ; and that, after all. the Perils from 
which I had efcaped, I was to fall into that which is leaft 
to be endured, I mean Perils amongft falfe Brethren. 
30. A moft unlucky Accident, which happened the very 
fame Evening that we anchored at Wampo, gave Birth to 
my Troubles in India, though, with refped to me, it was 
not only unforefeen, but abfolutely unavoidable, and the 
pure Effects of that Eagernefs, which poffeffed ail the Ship’s- 
Company, to get out of this Part of the World at any rate. 
If there had been any Government among the Englijh fet- 
tled here, fo as that my Authority might have been fup- 
ported, undoubtedly this unlucky Bufinefs never would have 
fallen out j but, as it was, it could be imputed to nothing, 
but the Want of fuch an Eftablifhment. The Thing, in 
few Words, fell out thus : One of my Men, whofe Name 
was David Griffith, being in an Flurry to remove his Effeds 
on board the Bonetta’ s Boat, in which he was, 'happened to 
be chafed by an Hoppo or Cuftom-houfe Boat. The Fellow, 
being a little in Liquor, and fearing they would take what 
Silver he had from him, fired a Mufquet at them, and killed 
an Hoppoman or Cuftom-houfe Officer. Early the next 
Morning, the Corpfe was laid at the Door of the Englffi 
Fadories ; and there were Chineje Officers lying in Watch 
for the firft Englijhman that came out. It happened, that 
a Supercargo belonging to the Bonetta was one of the firft 5. 
and they immediately feized on him, carried him away, and 
afterwards led him about the Suburbs of Canton in Chains. 
All that could be faid or done by the moft confiderable of 
the Chineje Merchants, who were Correfpondents with the 
Englijh, availed nothing. In the mean time, my Man, who 
had committed the Fad, and another, were put in Irons on 
board the Francis , which was chopped, that is, feized, till 
the Man guilty of the Crime was delivered to them ; and, 
when he was put into their Hands, and carried to Canton in 
Chains, the Supercargo was releafed. I had not been here 
many Days, before I was deferred by all my Officers and 
Ship’s Company, who were continually employed in remov- 
ing their Effeds from on board my Ship, to fome of the 
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