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Leave Macao for Whampoa-Entrance to the Bocca Tigris-Country about Chuen, pee-Scene at Whampoa-Approach to Canton-The town and suburbs-The sailor's coffee-shop-Selling by weight-Dwarf orange trees-The tea shrub-Visit to the celebrated Fa-tee gardens-Topics of conversation-Exaggeration-Rambles in the suburbs-The city-gate-Manufactories-Sandal-wood.
On the 16th of October I left Macao for the "Cum, sing, moon," and the following morning sailed in the Lady Hayes, Captain Hector, for Whampoa, which afforded me an excellent opportunity of viewing the scenery of the river. We passed the island of Lintin, off which, (in the roadstead, on the north-west side,) a number of ships were lying at anchor. About ten P. M. we anchored off Chuen, pee, for the night. On the morning following, as soon as the tide was favourable, we were again under weigh, and about noon passed, with a light, but favourable breeze, the Bocca Tigris, and entered the river. This entrance to a very magnificent and extensive stream, is capable of being very strongly fortified. The Chinese have forts, mounting a great number of cannon, erected on each side of the passage: they excited some degree of interest in our minds, as being those silenced by the broadside of his Majesty's ship Alceste, some years since; a triumph of British firmness over Chinese impudence.