234 TO RE EN'S VOYAGE. 



{welling of the eye Li v da 5 for the orbits are 

 the fame with them as with other people. 

 Their nofes are fomewhat fiat : their lips mid- 

 dling ■■; and their looks, when they hope to 

 gain any thing, as fweet as pofhbly can be. 



The children are at firit lhaved, that their 

 hah may grow the thicker ; afterwards one or 

 three locks are left. The men, as is well 

 known, are obliged to fnave their heads, ex-* 

 cepuijg a crown, which 



they plait into three traces. 1 heir high value 

 Tor 'their locks of hair feems to abate in foipe 

 meafure; for at Stye da I faw two Chinefe, 

 who, living there, and having laid afide all 

 thoughts of feeing China again, had lhaved 

 their heads': whereas their neighbour, who 

 Was likewife a Chinefe, had all his hair tied in 

 the old faihion. Their beards do not grow 

 ■well 1 ; but perhaps they chufe to have a thin 

 "beard. If a Chinefe is afked what fum would 

 Induce him to part with his tuft of hair ? he 

 again aflb, what ycu would take for your 

 head ? And no wonder that they are fo very 

 careful of an ornament which they have per- 

 haps nourilhed for twenty, thirty, or more 

 years together. The women tie their hair 

 •above tfye top of the head ; and to make the 



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