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16. Their Buildingr are very Good and Commodious, The Appartmemssre allbelow on the Ground, Separated from one another by Partitions oFG»w» Painted and Guilt, which may be folded and Removed like Skreens.Their Floors are covered wich Matts , and sometimes with Silken Stvff', em-broidercd Velvet, and Clotb ofGold.

17. They have no orber Conveniencies to defend themselves frora Htat andCeld, but such as are usual in Italy and Sj>ain.

They use the Diverttfments of Comedtes, which are more. Brave thaathoseof Europe. The Spectators are about 100 paces distant frone» the The-ater, which being covered with a Vault, makes theVoice of the Actots tobe understood to the very end of the Theater. They Love Hunting, andGaming, as Orce, Cards* Chefs, &c. At ali times of the Day, and in alitheir Vilits they take Tea and Tobacco.

19. Their Lmguage is altogether different from the Chinese: but their

- Triests and Courtiiäns, that is, the Learned amongst them, which bear the

Officeß of the Court, undcrstand the Tongue of Cechin-Chma , and by thismeans that of Tunquin, China, Cor ea, &c. They Write neicher from the:Right to the Lest, nor from the Lest to the Right, but Dowmvard.

20. Their Government is Despotüque ; the Religion, Pagan ; the Christi-an Hated upon no other Account, but that forne of thole, that there Pro--feffed it, would perswade the Japonese to acknowledge a Superiority abovethe Dignity Royal, Difposing ofCrowns and Scepters. Their Morals arevery Good, their Faults being Punifh’d as their Crimes; even Lying and'Detratfion. Their Lest Band is the more Honourable, and they take Horseon that fide.

ohstrv.uvn, in 'XXXII. In a late Voyage to the South-Land, call’d Hollaedia nova, itmiardjaNova; bath been Discover'd that the Soil of the Country is very Barren and as »n. hj. p. z6i. Defart; no Frefh-Water Rivers have been found, but forne Sdt-Water Ri-ver s, as also no Four footed Beasts, except one as great as a Dog, with longEars, Living in the Water as well as on the Land.

Block-Susans, Parrots, and many Sea- Con>s were found there, as also aLake, whofe Water seem’d to be Red, because of the Redneß of the Bot-tom of it: and round along the Shore there was forne Sah. Our Peoplesaw but 12 of the Natives, ali as Black as Pitch, and stark Naked ; soTerrify’d that it wasimpoflible to bring them to Converfation, or a Meet-ing. They Lodge themselves as the Hottentsts, in Pavillions of fmallBranches of Trees. By Night our People faw Fires ali over the Country :but when they drew near, the Natives were Fled. ThcCoast is very Low,but the Country far from the Sea is High.

Upon the Ifland near the Coast, were feen Rats as great as Cats, in anInnumerable Quant ity: ali which had a kind of a Bag or Purfe hanging fromthe Throat upon the Breast downwards. There were found many WeU-Smelhng Trees, and out of their Wood is to be drawn OylSmellixg as aRoß: but for the rest they are Small and Miserable Trees. There werealso found some Birds-Nests of a Prodigious Grcatnefs; so that 6 Men

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