12 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



great paper-men, and horfes; commonly all 

 the rooms in the houfes were flung open, and 

 were every where illuminated. The muficians 

 were in the rooms towards the ftreet, and played 

 on inftruments which I had never before heard. 

 I was met by three facrificing priefts, who 

 walked about in the houfe facrificing and burn- 

 ing incenfe. They were cloathed in long, wide, 

 red robes, and wore high caps. The Chinefe 

 {aid that they thus annually prayed for fecurity 

 aeainfl fire. 



The goth of QElobcr. 



Basella rubra, which is here called Tand- 

 foy y climbed up the walls of the factory of 

 the merchant Soyon-quas. It had flowers and 

 fruits at prefent. The fpots which the berries 

 make in white linen are very hard to be got out. 



November 2d. 



*Sitta (Ch'mcnfii) palpcbrd inferior c pur- 

 purea. (Diff. Chin. Lager fir. 6.) The Chinefe 

 call it Kow-kay-konn. This bird was fomewhat 



a This bird is not in the Syft. Nat. Edit. 12. 



longer 



