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the more free manners of the Europeans, only 

 clench their fifls, and fay kin, kin. They ufe 

 much ceremony at coming in ; and before they 

 fit down, will be entreated to do it feveral 

 times. If you vifit them, they entertain you 

 with tea, comfits, and even with European and 

 Cape wine, adapting every thing to the ex- 

 pectations they have of the traffic you are to 

 carry on with them. You are at liberty to 

 walk about their rooms, but muft not ap- 

 proach their females : for the Chinefe, like all 

 nations among whom polygamy prevails, are 

 jealous. All that I have faid relates only to 

 merchants and tradefmen. How it is with the 

 noblemen, I know not : for what the common 

 people fay of them is not to be relied on, and 

 travellers are apt to add fomewhat of their own 

 invention. 



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