us, from an old : French narrative, that the -people of this country arc
•Called. Iroyes ; and. are large, mufcular, and well; made, complex-ion red-
difh, nofedrather flat; with 10ng;black hair drefs very flight.'1 ? The
king refides at Feneri, the capital, and was tributary to Cochin-China.
Produdions, Cotton, indigo, and bad filk. Their junks are well built,
and are much employed in fifiling.
COCHIN-CHINA.
T his country, prefenting an extenfive range, o f -coaft, has been
vifited by many navigators, who have fupplied confiderable materials
- for its defeription, • The name is.fttid jo imply Weftern China,
and appears to have been impofed by the. early navigators, perhaps
front the Malay appellation, while the.native name remains unknown.
In his account of the late embaffy to Chjaa Sir-,G. Staunton has given
% comparatively-ample-defcription of this country.
An ufurper' had extended/hi& conquefts. oyer Tunqui%" while thy
defendants of the former royal famiLy were reftrided to the fouthern,
diftrids. A confiderable degree of civilization appeared, and it is find
that the people are of Chinefe extrad; nay fomeaflert that this country
was anciently a part of that great empire. The aboriginal favages,
called Moos or Kemoos, are confined to the weftern range of mountains.
As the fhores abound with havens, the canoes and junks are
numerous.- The harbour, called Turon by Europeans, is a noble inlet
minutely defended by our author. The country is dividend into diftind
provinces;.: the capital being HueTfo, about forty, miles to the north of
Turon, which is called Han-fan by the natives. It was reported that
the garrifon in Hue-fo amounted to not lefs than thirty thoufand men,
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armed
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armed with matchlocks, | beilide^ .elephautS jof. war. Sabres and tpikes
are-alfoufed.. r
, The fiaperior ratiks- .eJfithkd; iotfilk', and difplay ,tli§% politjegefs* of ■
Chinefe mapners. Thyidrefs, of^bfttbjfex^S|ib;^mpar^4?gin^^lppie robes
wit-h.ïlrge lopg jleè&eg.; ■ 'andi,©4t|^hSu^^^bdntrp^fe^,r'AAkind or
turbanjfepfeKs the h&ad of*te men |ipT*m|fbedSs#or flippers are nfed.
The iio;ufes arcn-moftly of ba^boo. aOTfered- with rumes- dr the ftraw. of
ribèi:; Jand^ ftand in. groves. ofi©Èki^es,piflaes, plant .pp-., and cocoa trees.
Poultryaboubds in the -inarlblJ^^'djMi^'.^^ért^^ld^tv^^^ifèrved
pork apd beef, twotpo^cpiping. qUlfft Applying! ;a knife and^fork. ^ An
ardennfpiritiis'drank diftfted^from 'ife; and lamtiftmcnts of the
theatre; are,not Uhknewn. They cvirjce^fome tfkill in'thc mamifaduie
0? non, and their earfhen5 '"wa^afs ’Wrf Jj.neat1.lf' The Maf^'Telfoti iS*-
duribgiSepternbèr,VÖdöber, and'N^emb'eT;u%id tMJ flree' following
month's are' fflfo4p|d5anü möifi?, prefënting^hé^Témbïance"eff ahfT‘bnr-
pèan winter. ’ The Inundations drily '.laft two'dr three dSys^-Buthappen
o^cé^lfffoffdigbT in the1 rainy 'feafön. ' ‘ BorriVaccMnl bears -thaUthe
r a in s ’önlyfcohdnu’ë jfbk three 'regularly. 4», ©ae^fostnighfp if true
a -jfmgiflar phenomenon-.1-. MarchjAApril, \'Maf, form -a 'delicious
fpfit%t" while Jhei beat ofithe thrè&foüqwing m|nthstbs >.taither’,,e.xeef-
five.
- The horfes are ftnall, but adive: there are alfo mules,, aixd^tfe^.anih
innumerable- goats J'jiiTh-e pmdjadstof'agriculture djf&rehS
qualities, yams; fweetr potatoes,. greens, pumpkins, melons. -.^Sügajj
'abouéds, -arïd'ïs excellently purified byi-apr^c^^erc^b^ by £|ao.nt;oo.,
GqjdSuft-is found in thé-rivers y add the. ’minds’ yield’ ore ofTing#]^'
piiyife^^iiyer min.es ;hay e pa^o-heent lately ^fcoyered. Both 'metals
are ufed. in ingots, as in China. The little trade is chiefly cqndudtedrby
the PortUguefe from Macao,. ,
Mr. Pennant mentions, tigers, ;efephants, and rnonkjqs,. as abounding,
in Cochin-Chjtia ;* apd .that able, n,at qralift adds- th at t}icedib] c dC nefts^
efteemed a luxury in China, are chiefly found in this- country. They
are formed by a fpecies of fwallows '.from.fome unknown vifeous fub-
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4 fiance