Excerpt from Remarkable Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Anson's Voyages Round the World; Stephen's Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland; And Koempfer's Account of Japan But though the commodore objected both to the appointment of these officers, and to their project; yet, as they had insinuated that their scheme, besides victualling the squadron, might contribute to settling a trade upon that coast, which might be afterwards carried on without difficulty, and might thereby prove a very con siderable national advantage, they were much listened to by some considerable persons and of the which was to be the amount of their cargo, the Government agreed to advance them upon imprest, and the remaining 5000 they raised on bottomry bonds; and the goods pur chased with this sum were all that were taken to sea by the squadron, how much soever the amount of them might be afterwards magnified by common report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.