1787. beef, omcondition that we fent our boat for it every morning,
.November. an(j a]w a y S took care not to let the beef be feen. We willingly
. accepted his offer, and our boat was fent to the Royal Admiral
regularly every morning, and had generally the good fortune to
get the beef on board unperceived.
On the 23d our Captain went to Canton, and returned the fame
evening, having heard that the King George was arrived -at
Macao, which was a mofl agreeable piece of intelligence.
At noon on the 24th Captain Dixon went in the' whale-boat,
with feven hands, to meet the King George, in order to affifl in
towing her up the river, fhould they not have a favourable
breeze.
On over-hauling our flock of provifions it appeared that we
had fome to difpofe o f ; and this afternoon we fold three tierces of
beef to a Leghorneze veflel which lay in the river, -at twenty-four
dollars' fe r tierce.
About noon on the 25th, our confort, the King George, arrived
in the river, and anchored near u s ; bringing all her people in
good health and fpirits, to our very great fatisfadlion.
Captain Portlock’s fuccefs on the coafl, after we left him, had
been nothing equal to our’s ; indeed it was npt to be expected that
he could procure many furs in Prince William’s Sound, though
no effort was left untried for that purpofe; the boats being con-
ftantly out in the adjacent creeks and inlets, at a diftance from
she fhip.
The
The long-boat had been pretty fuccefsfrtl in Cook’s River, and , N 8?-
had made two trips; being obliged to come back ..the firfl time for »j
a frefh affortment of trader
After leaving Prince William’s Sound, Captain Portlock had
Fallen in with a harbour betwixt- Crofs Sound and the Bay of
Iflands. The paffage into it is- rather dangerous, and it affords
no great quantity of furs; -fo that it will be no objebl for future
traders. His long-boat had found a paffage from thence into
Norfolk Sound;- at which place the-inhabitants fhewedhis people»
tin kettles, pewter bafons, &c. . which they immediately knew had .
been bartered by us.
From this place Captain Portlock fleered directly for Sandwich?
Iflands, where he arrived about a week after we left them; fo that,
our meeting the Prince of Wales off King George’s Sound, was -
particularly fortunate, as our waiting for- Captain Portlock there
would have been fo much time entirely loll.; But;to return.—
In the morning o f the 26th both our Captains went to Canton,.
and returned in the afternoon of the 27th.. Mr. Browne (Prefi-
dent of the Supercargoes) affured them that the Superintendant-
of the Cufloms (or John Tuck, as the Chinefes commonly call
him)' would come to meafure both veffels very fhortly, and that
immediately afterwards,, our bufinefs fhould be expedited-without-
delay. During this time our people(were employed in overhauling ,
the rigging, and doing every other neceffary work that was re-~
quired.
On the 29th, at three o’clock in . the afternoon,- Mix William
Macleod, Firfl Mate of the King George, departed this life. His.
2 death