18 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



gathered about me in thoufands, throwing 

 fand, Hones, and dirt at rae, and ihouted all 

 together Akia, aque ya, quailo ; and with this 

 mufic they followed me through the whole 

 town. At the end of the fuburbs begins a 

 plantation with Sagittaria bulbis oblongis clofe 

 to the houfes. A large, low, clayey field was 

 employed in the culture of this plant. And 

 as I flopped here, and only gathered now and 

 then a plant, my difagreeable company flopped 

 their noife, especially when I turned to them. 

 Here was no road which carried direclly into 

 the country, nor did I venture any farther ; 

 but returned whence I came. However, in 

 the afternoon, I went out of town in a palan- 

 kin, by this means avoiding my difagreeable 

 forenoon companions. Returning again, I 

 went on foot about the wall of Ganton, on the 

 iide from the country, and there found Chry- 

 fanihemum Inditum, Urtka nhra, little clumps 

 of Fern ; and other plants between the Hones, 

 but they were out of my reach. 



When we came to the firfl: city-gate, to- 

 wards the fide of the European burying-place, 

 a mandarin, with a whip in his hand, joined 

 us to accompany us about the city. Near this 

 gate was a Chinefe inn, where brandy and .tea 



were 



