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1 8o The Authors Travels.
" that cautioufnefs and ftcrecy that we may un-
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fufpeQedly execute our defign. We being thus
far agreed, we afterwards us'd one another freely,
we often concerted how to make our efcape,
and to fecure a Fund for our future fubfiftence ^
one day I remember he faid to me, '^ Your Fa-
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ther has abundance of coin'd and uncoin'd
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Gold, it will be neceflary for us to take a
" large quantity of it to defray the expence of
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fo long a Voyage, and to anfwer other emer-
" gencies -^ but a thing of this nature muft not
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be attempted till the very Night we make our
" efcape, then we may pack it up with our
" Baggage, and eafily with a Boat go down the
"River as far as Khadzey^ and there go on
" Shipboard.
The time of our departure being come, I carried
off with me twenty ^xq pounds weight of
Gold, viz. one Rochmoo^ '^ three Copans ^ and
fourteen pound of Plates, Pots, ^c, I took alfo
Silver and Steel Money to the value of about fix
hundred Crowns : With this ftock my Tutor and
I (having left all our Family afleepO fafely ar-*
riv'd about twelve of the Clock at Night at
Khadzey^ which is diftant from my Father's Houfe
about nine* Englifh Miles : But here we were
fomewhat at a Itand how to get out of thelfland,
for the Emperor orders all People to be ftop'd
That endeavour to leave the Country without Licenfe
'under his Seal, however I put on a good
courage, and boldly call'd for one of my Father's
Balcons, and commanded the Steerfman to carry
us 10 the chief of the Ph'dipine Iflands call'd Mamllo^
or Luconja^ the Pilot helicated a little zt
firft, bur when I told him that I had bufinels of
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Vid, The Cihapter of Money.