THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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CHAP. X. 
Leave the Typa.—Orders of the Court of France refpeSHng 
Captain Cook.—Refolutions in confequence thereof.—Strike 
Soundings on the Macclesfield Banks.—Pafs Pulo Sap at a. 
—Steer for Pulo Condore. — Anchor at Pulo Condore .— 
Pranfadlions during our Stay.—Journey to the principal 
Fozvn.—Receive a Vijit from a Mandarin.—Examine his 
Letters.—Refrefhments to he procured. — Defcription , and 
prefent State of the IJland.—Its Produce.—An AJfertion 
of M. Sonnerat refuted.—Agronomical and Nautical Ob - 
fervations. 
O N the 12th of January, 1780, at noon, we unmoored, 
and fcaled the guns, which, on board my fhip, now 
amounted to ten; fo that, by means of four additional ports, 
we could, if occafion required, fight feven on a fide. In like 
manner, the Refolution had increafed the number of her 
guns from twelve to fixteen; and, in both firips, a ftout bar¬ 
ricade was carried round their upper works, and every other 
precaution taken to give our fmall force as refpe£table an 
appearance as poflible. 
We thought it our duty to provide ourfelves with thefe 
means of defence, though we had fome reafon to believe, 
that the generality of our enemies had, in a great meafure, 
rendered them fuperfluous. We were informed at Canton, 
that the public prints, which had arrived laffc from Eng¬ 
land, 
1780. 
January. 
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Wednef. 12. 
