A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.

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[1800?]
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Credit: A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    commodity for their market is iron. To this might be added feveral bales of coarfe woollen cloth, two or three barrels of glafs and copper trinkets, and a few grofs of large pointed cafe-knives. He then propofes, that two veffels, not only for the greater fecurity of the voyage, but becaufe (ingle (hips ought never, in his opi¬ nion, to be fent out for the purpofe of difcovery. For where rifques are frequently to be run, and uncertain and dangerous experiments tried, it can by no means be expected that (ingle (hips (hould venture fo far, as where fome fecurity is provided againft an unfortunate accident. When the (hips are prepared for fea, they will fail with the firft S. W. monfoon, which ufually fets in about the commencement of the month of April. They will fleer a northward courfe, with this wind, along the Chinefe coafi, beginning to make a more ac¬ curate furvey from the mouth of the Nankin river, or the river Kyana, in the 30th degree of latitude, which is fuppofed to be the remoteft limit of this coaft hitherto vifited by European veffels. The extent of the great gulph called Whang Hay, or the Yellow Sea, being at prefent unknown, it may be left to the Commander’s diferetion, to proceed up it as far as he may think pro¬ per: he mud be cautious, however, not to entangle bimfelf in it too far, left he (hould not have fufficient time left for the profecution of the remainder of his voyage. The fame diferetion may be ufed, when he has reached the ftraits of Tefloi, with regard to the iflands of Jefo, which, if the wind and weather fhould be favourable, he muft not negled to explore. Having arrived in the latitude of 51 deg 40 min. where he will make the mod foutherly point of the ifle of Sagaleen, beyond which we have a confiderable knowledge of the fea of Okodk, he will (leer towards the S. probably about the beginning of June, and exert his endeavours to fall in with the mod fouthern of the Kurile iflands. If the accounts of the Ruffians may be depended on, Ooroop, or Nadefchda, will furnifti the (hips with a. commodious harbour, where they may recruit their wood and water, and provide themfelves with fuch re- frelhments as the place may afford. Near the end of June the commander will direct his courfe to the Shum- magins, whence he will proceed to Cook’s River, pur- chafing, in his progrefs, as many fkins as poffible, with? out lofing too much time, (ince he ought to fail again to the fouthward, and trace the coaft with the utmoft acr curacy between the 56th and 50th degrees of latitude, the fpace where contrary winds drove us out of light of land. We think it proper to obferve here, that Captain King confiders the purchafe of fkins, in this expedition, as a fecondary concern, for defraying the expence; and, from our experience in the prefent voyage, there is no reafon to doubt that 2.50 fkins, each worth 100 dollars, may1 bcobtained without lofs of time; parti¬ cularly as they will, in all probability, be met with along the coaft to the S. of Cook's River. The commander of this expedition, after having .continued about three months on the American coaft, will fet out on his return to China in the former part of October, taking care, in his route, to avoid, as much as poffible, the tracks of preceding navigators. All that remains to be added on this fubjedt, is, that if the fur trade (hould become an eftablifhed objeeft of Indian commerce, many opportunities will occur of completing whatever may have been left unfinifhed, in the voyage of which the outlines are here delineated. During our abfence, a very ludicrous alteration took place in the drefs of all our crew, in confequence of the barter which the Chinefe had carried on with us for our ■ fea-otter (kins. On our arrival in the Typa, not only the failors, but Iikewife the younger officers, were ex¬ tremely ragged in their apparel; for, as the voyage had now exceeded, almoft by a year, the time it was at firft fuppofed we (hould continue at fea, the far greater part of our original (lock of European clothes had been longv ago worn out, or repaired and patched up with ftci^s, and the different manufactures we had met with in tlje courfe of the expedition. T.hefe were now mixed and eked 0©t with the gayeft filks and cottons that Chipa could produce. On the 30th, being Friday, Mr. Lannyon arrived with the (lores and provifions, which, without delay, were (lowed in due proportion on. board both the lhips. While in the Typa, Captain King was (hewn, in the garden of an Englifh gentleman,'at Macao, the rock, under which, according to traditional accounts, Ca~ moens, the celebrated Portuguefe poet, wavaccuftomcd to (it and compofe his Luftad. It is an arch of consi¬ derable height, confiding of one folid done, and form¬ ing the entrance of a grotto dug oyt of the elevated ground behind it. Large fpreading trees overlhadow the rock, which commands5 beautiful and extenfivc profpect of thefek, and the ifiands difperfed about it. During our continuance in the Typa, we heard nothing- with refpedt to the meafurement of the fnips; we may therefore reafonably conclude, that the point fo ftrongly conteded, in Commodore Anfon’s time, by the Chinefe, has, in confequence of his firmnefs and refolution, ne¬ ver fince been infilled on. By the obfervations made while our veffels lay here, the harbour of Macao is fitu- ated in the Iat. of 22 deg. 12 mii\. N. and the long, of 113 deg. 47 min. E. our anchoring place, in the Typa, in lat. 22deg. 9 min. 20 fee. long. 11 3 deg. 48 min. 34 fee. E. It was high water in the Typa, on the full and change days, at a quarter after five o’clock; and int the harbour of Macao, at 50 minutes pad five: the greateft rife was fix feet one inch. .We (ball conclude thefe remarks,and this chapter, with the prices of labour, and a few articles of provifions in China. 8 Per Day 5 and rice ^ 8 ditto D. Prices of Labour and Provisions at CANTON. £. S. si',T ‘ A Coolee, or Porter ----00 4- Taylor -------00 A Handicraftfman - - - - o o A common Labourer from 3d. to 5d. per day. A Woman’s labour confiderably cheaper. & s- Butter --------02 Beef ------- Calf - -. Ducks -------- .0 P}tt;o, wild ------- mm,.- Erpgs ------ Fowls, Capons, &c. - - Geefe ------ 44 Per Catty Ham - - - - - Hog, alive - - - Kid, ditto - - - Milk - . - , - - Pork - - - - - Pig. Pheafants - - - Partridges”,' - - - Pigeons - - - Rabbits ------ - 0 Sheep Spices Soy ■ - - Samfui ditto - -- -- -00 Tuttk a - - 1* 0 24 or 18 oz. 6 94 each 0 t * PerCatty - 0 1 0 4 each 2 0 Per 100 0 6 4 Per Catty - 0 0 74 ditto - 0 0 6f ditto t 24 ditto 0 44 ditto - 0 0 44 ditto 0 14 ditto - 0 0 74 ditto - 0 0 54 ditto 0 5 4 each>/<’* - 0 0 94 dicta L - 0 0 54 dittb- i* 1 4 diltb ' - 3 6 8 ditto 16 8 Per Catty 0 1 4 ditto 0 24 ditto - 0 0 94 ditto >$ 3fjj s/Tisn < r> . ••tfl aiz/oTfi, ■ W” y'soci oD-finijno in vnjrv'uo C,H A P. n f. brut 3 ?.i nO 64on.' I'JTinup £ 3UOC4> •,