Pekin, curiosity to be shewn for profit. Those statues were pro-
' bably bad imitations of bad drawings'of the lion, whose
real superiority of strength and imputed generosity of
disposition, have brought him into notice farther than
he has travelled.
The larger and mightier animal, the elephant, is to be
found, as an appendage of greatness, in the palaces of
the Emperor, where it was no less acceptable for its qualities
of docility and force, which rendered it capable of
being useful, than for its vast size and singular make.
It is the only quadruped that-has a proboscis, tho examples
of it are to be frequently found in l|h e insect
tribe, and among others, in the common fly alluded
to sometimes as gaining a victory over that huge adversary.
Individual elephants of both sexes^wére brought to
China from the neighbourhood of theEquator, and a few
of them were bred to the northward o f the Tropic; on
which occasion they were discovered, however discreet,
in their amours, to unite in the manner of other quadrupeds,
notwithstanding a formation apparently inconvenient
on both sides, but which accommodates itself to
particular purposes. The Chinese elephants are smaller
than those of Cochin-China, and of a lighter hue. T h ey
are literally granivorous, being generally fed with rice
and millet, tho the food of that animal in its wild state,
consists like that of the giraffe, the camel, and the goat,
tly/pf the’Tenderfllh^&s of'trees' and shrubs,
than of> Sitsd£ti#b'r felabes’'©f>corn ‘or ■g4Uss?rtJi
^^he»oMe&?®Stlf(i®lfcftlsihoiM'%i#i©tlhfer attendants in
' bf?ib'dsfr^dl them, persons
!WhO;'4fefefe -the“' ip'ilb&¥®yt,'^r^^P®^ivfed,,of th e
.means o'PpbGomis^g^mcnV'Or Wh(?, SinCe Fharperiod< have
©ejks&fbeing<4s®oh‘ »IM^Cthibg^tlsultedly'but’> th#t'®uttates
tsfi aifiaddemisg« j‘ekl(MSy«eOuMH]^ive first siag|'i^ecf!tlie
idea ofmutilat-ing^5.ii§ sfex^ fed ^?aeblt#P©<nlltef it1 an linsus-
pected guard* upon the othef p and nothingness‘thdiVtlifi
itttreiBle^abuse ufunlimited ,feoiild’iifectuateP?siO
©ruel^nd unnatural a purpose * »(Other mb tdves j’th owe vef,
might b a i t feoine in WdchtMriMfe gfvfe dcd&sion to'dr# edfi-
tinuari'd^ffa^d multiplication' df^sucht^bdin^dl No* Itfc|pr
.b^ldrff^r^fo^itheSr- S'ete^hfeld.'te' bortoV'-and, cdhfe'ffipt1 by
boeiip without the^ossibilMy df - ©fMp'Mn^tin’en(Mir>i^'
and unend§af#$y>and like no bd'sup^
jpdSed tolfei theffiore bound b y the factitious tfefo{ f,rF-
vitudepand devoted -andattafched without msferve tb'tfie
prince by whom1 they Sfe'employed. Menial; in
thebbeginuing, and;-pretending'to rio Jm^dftanbg,'they
ate' the'ready-andns’grVife ministers to5 tfieJ^Htgrilaml
private-pleasures -artd amusement, <ahi'1 wh'lp' |rad u d ly
into familisrlty^ andef^oitef rFrom' thenc'e;pfeythfe *un-
naisb fiC hi n a' >'i n -numbehles^ ins'ta-nk3£SJ t'estify( they have
sometime-passed1into* kit nations!® f poivei? and authority;
in .whfeh^dhce plabid; tke^fpv.euged themselves;1 as if it