CHINA, i 7 «>i. 2SI 



a brafs coin of the fize of a Swedijh 

 piece of two groats, which has a fquare hole 

 an the middle. In value it is proportionable 

 to the kas of filvfcr j however, at prefent,they 

 only give eight fuch brafs kas for a kanderin ; 

 in the fame manner as gold for fome reafons is 

 always valued fourteen times and a half more 

 pan fllver on this voyage. 



Their ftmpun, or table of accounts, is a 

 fquare frame, which is longitudinally divided 

 by a fmall piece of wood, not exactly in the 

 middle. In it are 1 1, 1 3, 2 1? or more wires> 

 on which roll little balls, namely, two on one, 

 and five on the other fide: the latter fignines 

 U io, ioo, &c. and the other two oppofitc 

 to thefe five (hew the units, tens, &c. They 

 go on very readily with adding and fubtraft- 

 wgjj but as for the reft, it will not do fo well. 

 1 now am forry that I cannot draw; but if I 

 remember right there is a drawing of the 

 Junpun in Loubere's Defection of Siam, and 

 beiides that, I fent you fuch a>/«» the lafl 

 time. They write with a pencil, which they 

 hold perpendicularly, between the thumb and 

 the two lafl fingers, and only lean their hand 

 on me table, or on the paper. One would 

 be led to thmk that they muft write very flow- 



