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CHAP, crews of several whicli we passed consisted principally of females, who 
did not appear to be in the least inconvenienced by their situation. 
April, In the forenoon we passed Piedra Branca, and in the evening en- 
tered the channel between the Great Lemma and Potoy. As no pilot 
offered, I stood on, guided by the chart of Lieutenant Boss, which was 
extremely accurate, and at ten at night brought up in the Lantao 
passage, and at nine o’clock next morning anchored in the Typa. In 
entering this harbour we found less depth of water than is marked in the 
plan of Captain King; and by the survey which we subsequently made, 
it appeared that at low water a ship cannot depend upon a greater depth 
than two fathoms, until after she passes the rocky head on her right. 
Immediately after we were anchored, I visited the late Sir WiUiam 
Fraser, who was then chief officer of the company’s factory at Canton, 
and we both waited upon the Portuguese governor. He gave us a 
very ungracious reception, for which we could account in no other way 
than by supposing he felt annoyed at our unceremonious entry of the 
Typa, without either pilot or permission; for the Portuguese at Macao, I 
understand, claim the Typa as their own, under the emperor s original 
srant of Macao to them for their services to China. Some Portuguese 
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officers who came on board during my absence intimated that the 
ship would not be allowed to remain in the harbour. We heard 
nothing more of the matter, however, for several days, when a man- 
darin waited upon Sir William Fraser to inquire into the business of 
the man of war anchored in the Typa. About the same time several 
war junks, two of which had mandarin’s flags, came down the river, 
beating their gongs, and anchored not far from us. 
The mandarin received a satisfactory answer from Sir MTlliam 
Fraser, but some days after, the Hoppo finding the ship did not go away, 
addressed the following letter to the Hong merchants 
“ Wan, by imperial appointment, commissioner for foreign duties 
of the port of Canton, an officer of the imperial household, cavalry 
officer, &c. &c. &c. raised three steps, and recorded seventeen times. 
“ Hereby issues an order to the Hong merchants. 
“ d'he Macao JV cnguin have reported that on the 18th of the 13th 
