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same time. Tbe*8tfi of September we put to sea again, turning 
to windward night and day without all the islands, which 
are very numerous along this coast, to which we were all 
together strangers beyond Emuy, and the hydrography thereof 
is hitherto so imperfect, that there was no trusting to our 
drafts, which made our navigation somewhat more dangerous. 
However on the first of October we got into the latitude 
of 30°, where we came to an anchor near the land, until 
we found the way by boat to Chusan,* about 12 leagues 
within the islands, from whence we had a pilot, who- 
carried us safely thither on the 11th of October. Upon 
this island the Chinese have granted us a settlement and 
liberty of trade, but not to Ningpo, which is 6 or 8 hours 
sail to the westward, all the way amongst islands; this being 
the largest, is 8 or 9 leagues iu length from E. to W. and 4 to 
5 in breadth, about 3 leagues from that point of the mainland 
called Cape Liampo by the Portuguese, but Khi tuf by the 
Chinese. At the westend of this island is the harbour, very 
safe and convenient, where the ships ride within call of the 
factory, which is built close by the shore on a low plain valley, 
with near 200 houses about it for the benefit of trade, inhabited 
by men, whose jealousy has not as yet permitted them to let 
their wives dwell here ; for the town where they are, is f of a 
mile further from the shore, environed with a fine stone wall, 
about 3 miles in circumference, mounted with 22 square 
bastions placed at irregular distances, besides 4 great gates, 
on which are planted a few old iron guns, seldom or never 
used ; the houses within are very meanly built. Here the 
Ghumpeen J or governor of the island lives and betwixt,3 or 
4000 beggarly inhabitants, most part souldiers and fishermen; 
for, the trade of this place being newly granted, has not as 
yet brought any considerable merchants hither. The island 
* The island of Chusan , the largest of the group marked as Ohusan 
Archipelago ou our maps, is immediately opposite the mouth of the river 
on which Ningpo is situated. The Chinese call it Ting hai , which 
is properly the name of a district city on this island. & m Chou shan 
(Chiu san in the local dialect) is an ancient name of it not found on 
modern Chinese maps. The island of Chusan is not to be confounded 
with Port Chusan, on the south-eastern coast of Corea, where Ch. 
Wilford collected plants about a quarter of a century ago. 
t A long projecting promontory opposite Chusan, tt M K’i t'ou 
of Chinese, Ke tou point of English maps. 
X Hi ^ Tsung ping, a general. 
