It is with the greateit fatisfadiion I can relate, that my
propofals met with the approbation, and the cheerful compliance
both o f the officers and m e n ; and I am perfuaded,
that every fcrap o f paper, containing any tran factions relating
to the voyage, were given up. Indeed it is doing
bare juftice to the feamen o f this fliip to declare, that they
were the moft obedient, and the beft difpofed men I ever
knew, though almoft all o f them were very young, and had
never before ferved in a ffiip o f war.
C H A P . IX .
Working^ to Macao.— A Chinefe Comprador.— Sent on
Shore to v ift the Portuguese Governor,— EffeEls o f the
Intelligence vie received from Europe.— Anchor in the
Typa. Paffage up to Canton.— Bocca Tygris.— Wampd.
Defcriptton o f a Sampane.— Reception at the Englifh
, Factory. Infance o f the fufpicious CharaBer of the
Chmefe.— O f their Mode of trading.— O f the City of
Canton. Its Size,— Population.— Number o f Sam-
panes^— Military Force.— O f the Streets and Houfes,
V ift to a Chmefe.— Return to Macao.— Great ^Demand
for the Sea-otter Skins.— Plan of a Voyage for
opening a Fur Trade on the Wefern Coqft of America,
and profecuting further Dfcoveries in the Neighbourhood
of Japan.— Departure from Macao.— Price of
Provifms in China.
^ n r 7 E kept working to windward till fix in the evening, <779.
W I g j l p we came to anchor, by the direftion o f the ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ S f
Chinefe pilot on board the Refolution, who imagined the ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ 1 3°-
tide was fetting agafnft us. In this, however, he was much
deceived-; as we found, upon making the experiment, that
“ " i,he- Nonhward till ten o’clock. The next morn- Dramt,e,
mg he fell into a fimilar m iftak e ; for, at five, on the ap- Wednef-
pearance o f flack water, he gave orders to get under way • '
but the ignorance he had difcovered, having put us on our
3 H 3 guard,