Ï780.
Janu ary.
A V O Y A G E T O
Doll.
Servants wages for]
the feafon - 3
Stewards wages - -
Butlers ditto
»
So
8q
per annum.
Prices of Labour.
£■ s. cits
coolee, or porter - 0 0 8 per day.'
A taylor - - o o 5 and rice.
A handicraftfman - o o 8
A common labourer, from •¡d.to^d.
A woman’s labour confiderably cheaper.
C H A P .
C H A P . X .
Leave the Typa.— Orders of the Court of France refpeEling
Captain Cook.— Refolutions in confequence thereof—
Strike Soundings on the Macclesfield Banks.— Pafi Pulo
Sapata.— Steer for Pulo Condore.— Anchor at Pulo
Condore.— TranfaBions during our Stay.— fourney to
the principal Town.— Receive a Vifit from a Mandarin.
— Examine his Letters,— Refrejbments to be procured.
Defcription, and prefent State of the IJland.— Its Produce.—
An Affertion of M. Sonnerat refuted.— Afirono-
mical and Nautical Obfervatians.
ON the 12th o f January, 1780. at noon, we unmoored, , 7go.
and fcaled the guns, which, on board my fhip, now . J,nu,|r-i
amounted to ten ; fo that, by means o f four additional ports, ihuria.w»
we could, i f occafion required, fight feven on a fide. In
lik e manner, the Reiblution had increafed the number o f
her guns from twelve to fixteen ; and, in both fhips, a flout
barricade was carried round their upper works, and every
other precaution taken to give our fmall force as refpeftable
an appearahce as poflible.
We thought it our duty to provide ourfelves with thefe
means o f defence, though we had fome reafon to believe,
that the generofity o f our enemies had, in a great meafure,
rendered them fuperfluous. We were informed at Canton,
that