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would be impoffible to ruh fuch a number of 

 unmannerly, ftubborn fubjefts. Oyer their 

 graves are generally little open ftone-build- 

 ings, which are almoft femicircular, and have 

 a niche for a perfuming vefTel. I only found 

 ofle fingle grave more magnificent than the reft, 

 on the northern fide of the town ; it was co- 

 vered by two round vaults, and fhut up by a 

 wall. 



On fome high hills there are towers. They 

 have all of them eight fides, are nine ftcries 

 high, are almoft every where of equal breadth 

 within, have every where windows, and ter- 

 minating in a point. I was told, that in time 

 of war they were ufed as watch towers : they 

 are therefore (o difperfed, that the given fignals 

 can eafily be feen from one tower to another. 

 In the villages were lefs fquare towers, three 

 ftories high; but the Cbinefe faid, that they 

 were pagodas. 



One of the flrft things on arriving here is 

 to procure a bancjhall ; this is, a great houfe 

 conftrufted of bamboo and mats on a place ap- 

 pointed for that purpofe, in which the ftores 

 of the fhip are laid up, and whatever is not 

 .abfolutely neceffary on-board, or whatever 

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