EMBASSY TO CHINA.
the occasion >of''surprise fand astonishmeiit in their beholders.
Few "of the people in this place hadiaver seen
an Englishman before,'or indeed anyipersons differing
remarkably from themselves; They collected now in
multitudes round the strangers, who were;attendfediby;ii|
guard which the governor had .ordered (for themvn’The
people, however, pressed close, without any apparenfcapf
prehension of the soddieSy?dThey) were ^ familiar, .but
without insult, scoff, or uproar; it was then tfeelmnnth
of July, and the crowd added to the sultriness .of the
weather. v®He party being dressed in the.Eiiropean style1,
their clothes'fitted closely to their bodies, andts@rn.efkept
tight by ligatures; begando:suffeffie"xceedihgfy.frbmethe
iteat; while the surrounding multitude, in habitsdopsely
hanging round them/felt no sort ofinconvenieneej.: The
soldiers endeavoured to keep I off the peopleftby-fgpntle
methods- and sometimes bymenaeeS; but did npt'Seemrjin
the habit-df exerting against them the means of coertion
in their hands.
The party took shelter from the heat and crowd in a temple
fullof monstrous and grotesque figures of thess jippoSed
deities and guardians of the city: anddsoonf'afte®iy.^<il
returned in sedan chairs, followed by new crowds,-- Bier
fore they reached the sea side, they 'were overtaken by
heavy rain, and whirling gusts of wind that. nMrly
overset the chairs, and forced them to go into .'a monastery
o f Chinese priests, where they were • hospitably
reaeiyedv and helped g e n ^ d a ew g e
up on,^lk'%GCisions,- a-nd.afc all, houj^of the,,dpy.
- The ngxf. morning th^party pres&^p^ the*qs§Jyes so ' s
earlyatrfcb'e halbf&l an#fnce|^h^ .the govemor. was not
^t^arrived^eregi It |^a&'§\!|rtg®d8uildin|^situated#t'rith.e
en§[ of^Wpay ^court^rrpund^d|b)^gaU«ri^. | The. hall
was ope%entirely..t^|iiesiEc^f,<,whieW^^¥$>Port?t1' hY
se%ral -rows/of j^Pi^^pden fl^umxi^paiflte^re^ aq4
higbly«tamishe4^Js mqtf*.all/thp ap,d, rgfterS, A
prodigious,*.RUifibp%of lamps, various
shapes-,^and 1sizps.;..)V£re ssus.phnd^d^b^silkehheor'dpfrom
the^CEQSS bepjpis,, and. round th(^|©liwins,, dpgp^ted with
t-as^l^var^ip^^Jqrm and,colour.,.;
Of the lanfcerias, som,e. thin^silk
gau&e^pkinted or w.rq$|jja.k in .needi*©,-wor^fJ> ,^i.t^^,gur^s
offbirds, insects,, flowers, or jjguik and^etphedjpni-n^at
-fpmes of ,w,po,dv"S^^^er,e jenticsl^' made^jf1“ horn ;
these,.yfere so thip.and transparent thatdh^were ta-kep.
-at‘fiTstfof.;glftss,ia. material to which, #4,thisj-.purpds,e,
the horn is .preferred, by the;Gfeii^e*$,s eheape^Jighter,
.^eSa4iaWe#;^«d#t,
repaired ; many pl^hem w;^hbpit<i,t5Vo*||£t in jbp-.dfe'
mieter, and in the fornj, pf a c,yii^derv .pith th?%ends
grounded off,. anditb>e^ges #&dng,in t|^ o ip t. to whisht
the suspending cords ys^grp ji^cJj:<veaeh lanteE^eonsj^ted ^
of m uniform piece. QThorn^hed^nts^Qp. ^epuSv ^ p g
- rendered invisible,, an art fourid.ooj,t.;by th e ^ ^ s e ,;
yoiixi i.