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C H A P . VIII.
Leave the ‘city ofTong-tchew. ‘The road to Pekin deferibed. Arrive
■ at a large town called k^yengrPbof Halt there to breaffafi. Pró-
digious^crowds o f people toffee the embeffy pafs, « Arrive at Pekin.
. Sortie account f t h a t C u f o m s and manners of the Chinefe.
, Leave Pekin. Arrive... at the imperial palace named Yeumanrman-,
yèutnen.
tsSjËÊ T h i s morning at two o’clock the general was béat through‘all thé
W^ef- courts o f the houfe, as. a fignal "for the fuite to prepare ,fot their de-
'parture.'After an hafty breakfaft,. the whole o f the embaffy' was
ready to proceed on their journey. The foldiers were firfbma'rehed
off to covered waggons provided for them r the fefvants then followed;,,
and were received in*o„ fimilar machinc^-the gentlemen of the fuite
next proceeded in light carts drawn by a finglg ho'jsfe.' • Lp-rd 'Macartney,
Sir George Staunton,..and Mr. .Plumb, the; interpreter, .were
conveyed in palan<jubis, which Were each of .them^bpmefr'by^foui
k men .
The vehicles which carried die foldiers and fervants were common
hired carts, drawn by four horfes, unequally eóupled fogej|ïèr,-ahd covered
with draw matting. The harnefs, i f it may deferVe thafrna'me/
was made o f rope and cordage. The fingle-horfe carts were covered
with blue nankeen» and had doors o f lattice work lined with th f lama
flu ff: the drivers walked by the fide o f them.
A t four o’clock this proceflion was in motion, which confided o f
fixty carts for the foldiers and fervants, and twenty for the conveyance
of the gentlemen belonging to" the fuite, exclufive o f carts for the
i private
£ 99 * ) ,
private baggage, and the' coelies/or pdrters^'employed to carry the 4593»
pipgfents andr hekvy“b’aggag%^hithVwer£nconveyed on their' Ihoulders*; ''T E S u
iofir hundred o f whom* we rex empjoyedy ^dh'" this;, ‘extraordinary oc-
■ ^eafion. ;• ■ /
I 'About-five aiclqckwe 0f Tong-tchew; and
“ tered: immediately into a fine1' leyefeco,tifit'ry|^
felftilityp ashCar^as the^eyef cqpldr fetch, to, he ohet
ijcnirtenfe,ggrderv • ( > . ’(•_ | j *
• ,i<The -r^adalojig,whichr^dravelllidv js>lot Obiy-broad, biit elegant/
and ista&prqof’ ®f, the -'labour employed?^ thhi<3hmdh>gdyernment for
facilitate the, rcommuriicatibn^'^etweb#Wcapitaljf^d'’the^pV4 ci'pal
pa rts^fi th£ king^on^ The .ihjddle offttbilfo chad' 'con (iffy of av pavei
mepfjof abroad flag ftbnes aboiit.twenty arid
ifc’thers- is|fliffident fpace 'to adrtfif ^ f f ix edrriagesio/run -ajbreaft. The
'literal parts afedaid with"gravel fto'nes', 'and‘kept Mchdtihual/frepatr.
by troop/^L laboUru sf who are flaiioned onditfetent p f r t f^ fh e rdad
’ for; thafe'.pii'rp^flX/
4 t ‘^ - e^ Qj | f ck--the caval9 lddto|pe-d^at-.a larg^td^viy^'hd^name
$ hHenjr7hoo. y '£ o ?calJ5it poputou«/ ^ uM lb& fo .eajploy «jfppertf
flu9Us,e^p^1!ib^i^^%g^na|l-y appropmte % % ^ h o B k fa |d bm ; «Is,
-day, • and all the hahklfdf
if, ltMds withpbeple'. .In tlb l^ p^VhTou g^w fe lbh we "Live paffei
|the>population^®,irnmenfe and umferfal ^ v^ 'm il^ \ { f iig h f t ‘di:i£a
,wou!d hayetJ r©yvdfd|,c>uf
and the v iila^ ca th red h -v^% c ^ u t i^ ^ a c id i lidi' o |
^ h ile jtg beiutv&- proofs of p s 'w cd tlf‘L'
ThjOfe^Whjohwe' approached near ^enoug^o, '.as^wd pafled
were built o f wood, and many -of‘ thetrT wer& pafni-eH
blapk,, and enncljedi, with gilded omar>Lnts.
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