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1779- 
December. 
Thefe were now again mixed and eked out with the gau- 
dieft filks and cottons of China. 
On the 30th, Mr. Lannyon arrived with the ftores and Thurfday 30, 
provifions, which were immediately flowed in due propor¬ 
tion on hoard the two Ihips. The next day, agreeably to a Friday JX . 
bargain made by Captain Gore, I fent our Iheet anchor to 
the country fhip, and received in return the guns, which 
Hie before rode by. 
Whilfl we lay in the Typa, I was fliewn, in a garden 
belonging to an Englilh gentleman at Macao, the rock, 
under which, as the tradition there goes, the poet Camoens 
ufed to lit and compofe his Luliad. It is a lofty arch, of 
one folid Hone, and forms the entrance of a grotto dug 
out of the riling ground behind it. The rock is overlha- 
dowed by large fpreading trees, and commands an exten- 
five and magnificent view of the fea, and the interfperfed 
illands. 
On the nth of January, two feamen belonging to the j 2 uS y 
Refolution found means to run off with a fix-oared cutter, Tuefday u. 
and, notwithllanding diligent fearch was made, both that 
and the following day, w*e were never able to learn any 
tidings of her. It was fuppofed, that thefe people had been 
feduced by the prevailing notion of making a fortune, by 
returning to the fur illands. 
As we heard nothing, during our fhay in the Typa, of the 
meafurement of the Ihips, it may be concluded, that the 
point fo ftrongly contelled by the Chinefe, in Lord Anfon’s 
time, has, in confequence of his firmnefs and refolution, 
never fince been infilled oh. 
The following nautical obfervations were made while we 
lay here: 
Harbour 
