China. The old man said he knew the Gulf of Nankin very well; but

smiling, asked us what we would do there? I told him we would sell

our cargo and purchase China wares, calicoes, raw silks, tea,

wrought silks, &c.; and so we would return by the same course we

came. He told us our best port would have been to put in at Macao,

where we could not have failed of a market for our opium to our

satisfaction, and might for our money have purchased all sorts of

China goods as cheap as we could at Nankin.