"تقرير جديد عن جزر الهند الشرقية: يتناول ملاحظات وتعليقات النقيب أليكساندر هاميلتون الذي كان يسكن في تلك الأجزاء من ١٦٨٨ إلى ١٧٢٣، حيث كان يتاجر ويسافر بحرًا وبرًا إلى معظم البلاد والجزر المعنية بالتجارة والملاحة، بين رأس الرجاء الصالح وجزيرة اليابان. الطبعة الثانية. المجلد II." [‎٢‎٦‎٠] (٣٦٢/٢٩٩)

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him, that no Ship Ihould have Liberty to lade
their Goods aboard, that did not firft take
their Quota of the fhip-wrackt Men. We went
to the Teytock, and acquainted him with our
Defign, who much approved of the Projeft,
and he feemed furprized, that any of thofe
Ships durfl go into our King's Dominions,
who had denied to affift, not only his Sub-
jefts, but immediate Servants. He was very
human, and fent the poor Seamen Prefents
of Pork and Hockfewy (a ftrong fermented
Liquor like our ftrong Ale) for me to diftri-
bute among them, and thofe Prefents he fre
quently fent.
I provided a Prefent to accompany my
Letter to the Chungtock, tothe Value of 40
Pounds Sterl. and got the beft Scribe in the
Place to write my Letter, laying down the
Mifery the poor Men were in, and how ea-
fily and iuftly they might te reliev'd by fuch
an Order.
I fent my Letter and Prefent by an Ex-
prefs, who returned in fixteen Days with a
fatisfaftory Anfwer, and an Order to the Ha~
poa, to fuffer no Goods to be Ihipt off with
out confulting me. The Hapoa came to my
Fadfory, and congratulated me on the Ho
nour that the Chungtock had done me, and
promifed to obey his Orders in relation to
flripping Goods off.
A Gentleman who was Supercargo of the
Ship c DorreU bound dire<% from Amoy to
England, was the firft that was denied a
Permit to Ihip Goods off. He had fent for
the