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 itelf before me; when, in a typhoon, in the Latitude of 38° North, on the coat of Corea, I was o unfortunate as to loe my rudder, which obliged me to put back into the port of Chuan in the Northern parts of China, where my los was repaired, as well as could be contrived, without the profeional aid of a carpenter. At this place, I was, by no means, well treated by the Chinee: indeed, to prevent the being plundered of our cargo, and to ave ourelves from the ill-uage which we might peronally uffer, if we hould fall into their hands, we cut from our anchor, and, baffling the puruit of thirty-ix armed junks, returned to Canton. Here I was threatened with till greater evils, for being obliged from the wretched tate of the hip, which was almot a wreck, to pas the Bocca Tigris, without topping to obtain the neceary paport,