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. earneftnefs befought the Captain to get one fent to his .uncle 1783. 
DECEMBER, 
Raa Kook, to whom he faid he was fure if would be of 
great fervice. 
They were now waiting for a permit and boats to take 
them to Canton, when Captain Churchill, of the Wal¬ 
pole, having made his paflage to China againil the Mon- 
foon , arriving at Macoa at this time, was fo obliging as to 
accommodate them with a paflage up to Whampoa ; only 
Mr. Benger, with five or fix of the men, remaining at Ma¬ 
coa with the Oroolong, till the fhould be difpofed of. 
During the time Lee Boo was in the Walpole, he 
had fufficient matter to keep all his faculties awake; the 
furniture, tables, chairs, lamps, and the upright bulk-heads, 
with the deck over head, were all furprifing; after his eye 
had in filence run over thefe objects, fie whifpered to 
Captain Wilson, that Clow Ship was Houfe . It is more 
than probable that nothing on board the Walpole ef- 
caped his notice, as it was evident nothing on flior-e did. 
—At Canton, the number of houfes, the variety of 
Ihops, and the multitude of artificers, induced him to 
fay, there was a Thcickalby for every thing.—Being at the 
Company’s table, at the factory, the veflels of glafs, of 
various fhapes and fizes, particularly the glafs chande¬ 
liers, attracted his notice. — When, on looking round, he 
furveyed the number of attendants handing behind the 
gentlemen’s chairs, he obferved to Captain Wilson, that 
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