536 TOREHN'S VOYAGE. 



be obliged to throw them into the water for 

 nothing. I have no reafon to doubt of the 

 facl I hint at ; fmce I have feen feveral chil- 

 dren floating on the water : but I cannot pre- 

 tend to fay whether they are deftroyed with 

 or without the permiffion of the magiftrate. 



Their cl oaths are wide and long, generally 

 confiding of gawze c (tuffs. Their 



boots are embroidered, and made cf a fpecies 

 of filk, have thick foles and no heels. Their 

 head is covered with a hat plaited of canes 

 and lined with tiffany ; the hat is cone-fhaped 

 or like a cover of a difh. On the top of it is 

 a tuft of red filk, which covers the hat on all 

 fides ; and on the tuft is a button, by which 

 is diflinguifhed the quality of the wearer, as 

 father Du Halde mentions. In winter they wear 

 round caps of black velvet or fattin, with a 

 ihallow brim, on which is a tuft of red filk 

 threads: they likewife wear warmer cloaths. 

 The common people wear coarier fluffs, {lock- 

 ings of nankin, fhoes without buckles of the 

 fame fluff, and go generally bareheaded. The 

 pooreft of all wear only breeches. The wo- 

 men go bare-headed ; their cloaths fit fome- 

 what clofer to the body, but flays are un- 

 known among them. An Englijbman had his 



wife 



