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own coin, and some in smallwedges, of about ten or twelves ounces each. While we were dealingwith him for our opium, it came into my head that he might perhapsdeal for the ship too, and I ordered the interpreter to propose itto him. He shrunk up his shoulders at it when it was firstproposed to him; but in a few days after he came to me, with one ofthe missionary priests for his interpreter, and told me he had aproposal to make to me, which was this: he had bought a greatquantity of our goods, when he had no thoughts of proposals made tohim of buying the ship; and that, therefore, he had not money topay for the ship: but if I would let the same men who were in theship navigate her, he would hire the ship to go to Japan; and wouldsend them from thence to the Philippine Islands with anotherloading, which he would pay the freight of before they went fromJapan: and that at their return he would buy the ship. I began tolisten to his proposal, and so eager did my head still run uponrambling, that I could not b
“In course!” he exclaimed, with a twang of voice and a
