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paper in his hand, and gave it to me to read; and I was not 
a little furprized to find it a fort of a certificate in French, 
as follows: 
Pierre Joseph George, Eveque d’Adran, Vicaire Apoft. 
de Cochin China, &c. &c. 
Le petit Mandarin , porteur de cet ecrit, eft veritablement 
Envoy e de la cour a Pulo Condore, pour y attendre et rece- 
voir tout vaiffeau European qui auroit fa deftination d’ap- 
procher ici. Le Capitaine, en confequence, pourroit fe fier 
our pour conduire le vaiffeau au port, ou pour faire paffer 
les nouvelles qu’il pourroit croire neceffaire 
A Sai-Gon, PIERRE JOSEPH GEORGE, 
io d’Aout 1779. Eveque d’Adran. 
We returned the paper, with many proteftations of our 
being the Mandarin 's good friends, begging he might be 
informed that we hoped he would do us the favour to vi- 
fit the fliips, that we might convince him of it. We now 
took our leave, well fatisfied, on the whole, with what had 
paffed, but full of conjectures about this extraordinary 
French paper. Three of the natives offered their fervices 
to accompany us back, which we readily accepted, and re¬ 
turned by the way we came. Captain Gore felt peculiar 
fatisfaCtion at feeing us; for, as we had exceeded our time 
near an hour, he began to be alarmed for our fafety, and 
was preparing to march after us. He and his party had, 
during our abfence, been profitably employed, in loading 
the boat with the cabbage-palm, which abounds in this 
bay. Our guides were made exceedingly happy, on our 
prefenting them with a dollar each for their trouble, and 
intruding 
1780. 
January. 
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