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NOVEMBER. 
Sunday 30. 
AN ACCOUNT OF 
they kept founding during the night, and at feven o'clock 
in the morning they faw fhe land, bearing from N. by E. to 
W. S. W. : they flood in amongft the iflands, as the wind 
•would permit, and at noon were in latitude 22° 8 7 north, 
the high land called the Asses Ears then bearing S. S. W. 
They fleered to the weft ward amongft the iflands until fix 
o’clock in the evening, when they anchored in ten fathom 
water, a foft clay bottom, amongft fome fmall Chinefe veftels. 
—Lee Boo appeared quite delighted at the fight of land, 
and the number of boats on the water. 
The next morning Captain Wilson procured a pilot to 
conduct their veflel between the iflands to Macoa ; and 
when they came in fight of it, an Englijb jack was hoifted 
at the maft-head, which being feen by the officers of the 
PortugueJ'e fhips at anchor in the Typ a, they immediately 
ftent their boats to meet our people, bringing with them 
fruit and provifions, as alfo men to aflift them, judging, 
from the fize of their little veflel, that they muft be part 
of fome EngJi/h fhip’s crew that had been wrecked; and 
one of the officers was fo obliging as to wait with his boat 
to take the Captain on fhore to the Governor; who, being 
at that time engaged on particular bufinefs, defired to be 
excufed from feeing the Captain, but acquainted him, by 
the officer on duty, that they were welcome to the port of 
Macoa. This gentleman informed Captain Wilson, that 
the Honourable Company’s fupracargoes were all up at 
Canton, 
