Citrus omnis, 292. The four fpecies of this country are culti--
vated for beauty as well as ufe.
Hypericum patulum, 295.
Hypericum monogynurp, 297. Kaempf. Amoen. v. p. 845.
Cicborium Intybus et endivia, 304.
Inula helenium, 317. Sp. pl. 3. p. 823.
ifagetes patula, 320. Sp. pl. 3. p. 840. Flor. Coch. 6x6.
Chryfantbemum Indicutn, 32Ö. Sp. pl. 3. p. 848. Kaempf1-
Amoen. v. p. 875. Flor. Coch. 610.
Calendula officinalis, 321. Sp. pl. 3. p. 924.
Cucurbita lagenaria, 333. Sp. pl. 4. p. 202. Kaempf. Amxn-
v. p. 810. Flor. Coch. 728. cultivated for its Angularity.
Impatiens balfamina, ¡oj. Sp.pl. 3. p. 971.
Acroßichum lingua, 320. Kaempf. Amxn. v. p. 891.
Acroßichum haßatum, 331..
Quadrupeds. T he quadrupeds o f thefe iflands are not numerous. The
horfesare fmall, but well fhaped; and employed for riding,,
drawing, and ploughing.
Cows are never ufed for the purpofes o f the dairy. The Ja-
panefe know nothing of milk or butter. The oxen are of a vaft
fize, with bunches on their fhoulders, and only ufed for the'
plough, or the conveyance o f goods in great cities.
A s s e s , mules, camels, and elephants are not known here.
S h e e p , goats, and fwine are not among the native animals
the Dutch and P.ortuguefe, imported . fome, and the firft ftill
bring a few from Batavia, for their own ufe. As to fwine, the
Japanefe get them from China, but merely to fell to the Cbinefe
6 traders.
traders. They hold the Pythagorean doitrine fo ftrongly as to
forbear eating any thing that has had life.
Japan has deer and wild boars. Thefe, and hares, the followers
o f certain feits are at one time o f the year permitted to
eat, contrary to their ufual rule of religion.
Mr. Zimmerman, in his zoological chart, gives the Rupicapra,
or Chamois, as an animal o f Japan.
No country breeds more dogs; they have mafiers, but lie Docs ■,
about the ftreets, and are very troublefome to paflengers. In
KaempfeFs time there was an emperor fo fond o f thefe animals moch
as to caufehuts to be built, and provifions to be found for them RESPECTED-
in every ftreet; the utmoft care was taken o f them during fick-
nefs,, and when they died, they were, carried to the ufual bu-
ryipg-pla.ces on the tops o f the mountains. This attention to the
canine fpecies at that time arofe from its happening, that the
reigning emperor was born under the fign of the dog, one o f
the Japanefi -conftellations. A poor fellow who had loft his dog
by death, fweating under hi§ toad in climbing the mountain o f
interment, was heard by his neighbor curfing the plaguing,
edict at a terrible rate. “ Friend,” faid his neighbor to him,
“ you ihould rather return thanks to the gods that the emperor
“ was not born under the horfe, for what would have then been
** your load.”
W ild dog,srwith large gaping, fnouts, are among the animal's
o f the country.
T he cats are very b e au tifu lw h itifh , marked with large C a t * .
yellow and black fpots, their tails very fhort, as if they had been
mutilated. The ladies carry them about, and are perpetually
eareffing them. As to moufing, they are quite ufelefs.
Here