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nication, but at certain ftated hours, 
when they might negeciate’as much as 
they plealed. ‘We here got filh ur abun- 
dance, long potatoes, and a few other ve- 
getables, the produce of the ifland; but 
our principal fupply was from hates 
the compredore at Macao, who has the 
contract for fupplying his Majefty’s hips 
with frefh beef, and every defcription 
of vegetables, which he fent up to us 
regularly by junks; independent of thefe 
we had an extra fupply for the ufe of the 
fick alone, who here became more nu- 
merous every day. 
There is a watering-place about half a 
mile from the village; at the foot of the 
peak, where the ftream rums through a 
bamboo into the caiks on a httle fandy 
beach. The water, though none of the 
beti, is as good as.anyon the neigbour- 
ing ‘ifles. It may here be remarked, 
that the water in this part of China, is, 
generally {peaking, of a very inferior 
quality ; ; we were dbliged to ftart {ome of 
it overboard after leaving China. 
As we withed to have a commanding 
view of this httle Chinefe Cyclades, a 
party of us fet out early one morning 
in order to afcend the peak, which is 
very abrupt, except on the nerther 9) lide, 
where it is of fomewhat eatier afcent. 
On our way up, we had opportunities of 
feeing feveral piétures in miniature of 
Chinefe indufiry: every little sill of, 
water that trickled from the fummit, was 
led in zig-zag directions along the fides of 
the mountain, and made to pafs over in- 
numerable little terraces of paddy or rice, 
that were formed. on every fpot that 
would bear the flighteft cultivation. 
The other parts of the mountain ferved 
to feed their goats, &c. ‘The goat-herds’ 
cottayes, furrounded with beautifid little 
bowers, peeping out here and _ there 
from among the rocks and precipices. 
‘The peak ittelf terminates in three craggy 
eminences, or huge fragments of rock, 
that feem to have been fevered from 
each other by fome, ftroke of lightning ; 
and asthe earth has been confiderably 
walhed away from about their bates, 
they appear as if retting on a_perfedt 
pivot: that fragment particularly, facing 
the S. W. impends over a moft frivhtful 
chain of precipices, which we could not 
look down upon without frinking back 
with horror. 
From this elevated fituation, we could 
count between twenty and thirty iflands 
fcattered around in all directions, and 
exhibiting a peculiar wildnefs and variety 
in their features, 
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We could barely make out Macao, 
on which the Portoguefe fettlement of 
the fame name is built, and which we 
afterwards vilited. In the contrary di- 
rection we could fee the celebrated ttrait, 
» called the Bogue, or Bocca Tigris, where 
Hi, M.S, Grampus was then lying. The 
north-eaft view prefented the high blue 
mountains in the interior of the country, 
Towards the middle of November the 
weather began to get cold; the north- 
eat monfoon coming down from the 
bleak mountains of China and Tartary, 
felt very fharp and biting to people 
juft arrived from the burning ikies of 
India. 
As we expeéted fome bad weather 
about this time, we prepared to move up 
to the Bocca Tigris, where fhips are 
well fheltered by the furrounding moun- 
tuns. On the 15th of November, there- 
fore, we firuck our tents at Lintini, and 
removed the fick on board, who now 
amounted to 50 or 60, mofily agues, 
fluxes, and colds. We ‘loft, one officer 
and one man while lying here, whom we 
buried with the ufual ceremonies, on the 
fide of a little Inll; the whole of the 
iilanders eying the procefs with the ut- 
moft curiolity. The villager to whom 
the ground belonged, did not fail to afk 
me the next day for two dollars, pointing 
‘@ the grave where the young officer was 
buried, and whom he had obferved 
me frequently vilit while lymg fick on the 
ifland. 
We now unmoored, and proceeded 
up towards the Bogue; the Mujer hav- 
ing been fent fome time before, to take 
a {urvey of the paflage, and m: two days 
came to an anchor in Anfon’s bay, fo 
named finee the time Lord Anfon refitted 
the Old Centurion in this place. 
[t hes juft without, and on the eaftern 
fide of the Bogue, between Annanhvy 
and Chumpee forts. The fhore all round 
the bay is fo fhalow and muddy, that 
there is no landing except at hich water 
and that clofe under the Anna annoy fort, 
among fome fharp black rocks, 
The lafi-mentioned fort tlands on the 
eattern fide of the Bocca, or mouth of the 
Tigris. Itis a finall femicircular battery 
nearly level with the water’s edge, moun- 
ting twelve or thirteen old guns, of diffe- 
rent calibre, feemingly about the fize of 
4 and 6 pounders, placed on dead car- 
rages, and apparently in a wretched ftate. 
On the oppoiite tide, are two {mall forts 
fituated on two litte flands; the dittance 
acrois, I think, is about two smutket- 
fhots, or thereabouts. ; 
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