gaard which attended his Excellency on ’shorn, beside
ch"‘a' firing :a salute in hân®àr ®fatfae day, wént through: seveit-
ral military, evolutions, to the admiration, not only o f
Ötó 'sarroaliudiag multitude, but of the native troops, j
Notwithstanding tb© decrease c^popul^biiidiTcaighr
ottt the country! in the course o f a longi sgivii wap,l ofchfe
fiUmbetof toen in arms Was said to be stilk<fomsiderabfe»
At Hiké*foô> the; capitel ©fdthe -kingdom, about forty
miles to the northward-of Taron, tbi^:thonsanA®fi»
were reported to be kept in garrison, and regularly ex*
endued with muskets and match-locks evsaryday.-Tbeir
generals relied much also upon the use o f elephants
trained for war . With this vie w figures of soldiers: are
placed in ranks before the war- elephants, who arê
taught to attack them with great fury, seizing them with
their trunks, tossing some of them in the air, and tramps
ling xrtfers under their feet. The elephant, however,
like most other animals who subsist mtirely on vegetable
food, is naturally gentle, except where pains rare taken
to train them to acts of violence, or when provoked fey
great (personal-injury. The keeper of this huge animal is
generally a boy,who rides upon his neck and goviems
Kim with ease ? >pnd the nice touch and contractile power
of the «Kps of h6s fleicilerproboseis, sreffideir ifc ifoisoraein-
stances, ecpial to (the human fingers im adroitness.
tGoohinrchina is (among the few .places where efo-
phants serve for fbody-?They were 'considered as a perriaetcdaintyithisrtL;'
When the king! earanydofhk vieer
roykfinfifeiproYinee®,. has?eaai@ ef these animals slaugh*
toned for his tabMppieoes? of ■ i t -am; distributed - about to
persons of raiifk; tks ;g«at5^yiwgimarks.> of favour. Bufialo
is preferred to other beef.: Milk is*mot-used as fond 5 ’nor
8si;miiking anymnimal ous6oiHa:ry<in<' the Y©t
the people .have been driven tiki dreadful ( shifts for any
kind ofesustenkncei during ithe famine -which tihe: dee
Stroyisiga armies' of contendinga ly»ra®ts | bad frequentiy
fitCGa’Stdned j J andfoimam flesh *is skid to-kaYefeeen, sometimes,
isoldin' the open markets of the capital. ■ £
The neighbouring Tung-quioetee had taken,;, at (me
time, theadvanfogerf tbefebellion iiiMiisAffifohitoa, and
invadedvth®>iunjlhern prov%ces, <in which thwgapital is
situated, and during the shprbpeifodof their possession,
4k®y plundered whatesfcr valuable they <#suid find; and,
im particular, .asnweh ®f the:precfous>metals as they could,
di&cpv^r.i \> A great propofction of vrliat tfienvesclpod h is
been sent since. to China, in return for the p®desskries of
1 jfe >supplfod ■ byi thej junks from riheifce,.- #h© 1 wretched
jsihabitantsib®ii^ often compelled’to that retosorcei a&
their cultivated: lands wsene laid waste, and their manu,-
•fa Qtorie s de at rayed-. Before these calamitous events, gold
was particularly i plentiful in fche*pountry. Gold dust
swas. found in .the rive®s; and their, mines abounded in
th@ richest; ore, «0 pure? aa>. tot Eee^uire^only 1 the simple
aetionioffiraito exiteaet it. Much o f it was used in dee©*-
^.öçkcihniaö.-