On the 4th of December, they stood into the Typa, and moored with the stream-anchor and cable to the westward.
Captain King was sent up to Canton to expedite the supplies that were wanted, and experienced every possible assistance from the supercargoes and gentlemen of the Company's factory there.

The purchase of the provisions and store wanted was completed on the 26th, and the whole stock was sent down on the following day by a vessel which Captain Gore had engaged for the purpose.

Twenty sea-otter skins were sold at Canton, by Captain King, for eight hundred dollars.

At the ships a brisk trade was carried on in the same article, by both officers and seamen.

The sea-otter skins every day rose in value, and a few prime skins, which were clean and well preserved, were sold for one hundred and twenty dollars each.