Hazards and oddities of the opium traffic appear in a report of the first confrontation with Chinese by the people of the Rose, a 150-ton clipper brigantine designed by Joe Lee of Boston to Forbes's order, and sent out in 1836 by way of the Strait of Magellan and the Sandwich Islands. She picked up 300 chests of opium, valued at $1,000 apiece, from a receiving ship below Canton and sailed three days up the coast to Namoa Island, where she encountered the barge of a Chinese commodore. The master of the Rose explained that contrary winds had driven him off course, an explanation clearly absurd in the favorable monsoon.
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